In C#, why can't a List object be stored in a List<object> variable

Question

It seems that a List object cannot be stored in a List variable in C#, and can\'t even be explicitly cast that way.

List sl = new List

        

Answer 1

Mm, thanks to previous comments I found two ways to find it out. The first one is getting the string list of elements and then casting it to IEnumerable object list:

IEnumerable