This Is My Least Favorite C# Feature
Usually C# is a pleasant language to work with—it makes logical sense and can accommodate fairly complex programs. But some features in the language are inconvenient or downright flawed. One feature I like to avoid is the Clone method.
Part of the ICloneable interface, the idea behind Clone is that we have this interface that we use to define how an object is cloned (duplicated). But the interface does not do that. It does not specify to what extent the object is cloned. Here are the problems:
Clone may copy just the top-level fields from the object, not any nested fields.Clone calls may be shallow and some deep, we never really know what we are getting when we use Clone.So ICloneable is supposed to give us a standard way to duplicate objects, but it just makes us more confused when we cannot figure out what the method does with regards to nested objects. It is a counterproductive interface—one that makes programs harder to use and more confusing. For the most part, it is best to avoid ICloneable and Clone altogether.