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The first option is in principle easier, but it is unfortunately limited by the fact that many classes restricts inheritance of certain members or forbids it completely. This includes sealed class and the different primitive data types in C# such as [[Integer (computer science)|int]], [[Floating_point|float]] and [[String (computer science)|string]]. The second option, on the other hand, does not share these restrictions, but it may be less intuitive as it requires a reference to a separate class instead of using the methods of the class in question directly.
As an example, lets consider a need of extending the string class with a new reverse method whose return value was a string with the characters in reversed order. Because the string class is a primitive type, the method would typically be added to a new utility class in a manner not unlike the following:
string x = "some string value";
string y = Utility.Reverse(x);
This may, however, become increasingly difficult to navigate as the library of utility methods and classes increases, especially for newcomers. The ___location is also less intuitive because, unlike most string methods, it would not be a member of the string class, but in a completely different class altogether. A better syntax would therefore be the following:
string x = "some string value";
string y = x.Reverse();
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