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Is there a way in Mono.Cecil to determine that a MethodDefinition is actually a C# operator without parsing the name?

I want to avoid parsing the name, like op_Equality. Is there another way to determine if the given MethodDefinition is actually an operator?

Solution

  • Not that I am aware of;

    Section I.10.3 of ECMA-335 states:

    Operator overloading is described by using the names specified below, and by setting a special
bit in the metadata (SpecialName) so that they do not collide with the user’s name space. A
CLS-compliant producer tool shall provide some means for setting this bit. If these names are
used, they shall have precisely the semantics described here

    followed by a list of such special names (for instance for binary operators ).

    That said, since all operators need to be marked as specialname it is possible to quick check whether a method definition may be an operator.