What interfaces do all arrays implement in C#?

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From the documentation (emphasis mine):

[…] the Array class implements the System.Collections.Generic.IList<T>, System.Collections.Generic.ICollection<T>, and System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<T> generic interfaces. The implementations are provided to arrays at run time, and therefore are not visible to the documentation build tools.

EDIT: as Jb Evain points out in his comment, only vectors (one-dimensional arrays) implement the generic interfaces. As to why multi-dimensional arrays don’t implement the generic interfaces, I’m not quite sure since they do implement the non-generic counterparts (see the class declaration below).

The System.Array class (i.e. every array) also implements these non-generic interfaces:

public abstract class Array : ICloneable, IList, ICollection, IEnumerable, IStructuralComparable, IStructuralEquatable

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