out var feature.Since writing that post, the leakage rules have changed, so I thought it time to revisit the topic.
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out var feature works. And suddenly that all changed. This minor feature has become a significant change to the language. And many people aren’t at all happy about it.
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If you are a C# programmer, the chances are, you use an imperative approach to coding. You may have heard of the declarative (or functional) programming approach offered by F#, but are you aware that the same approach can be used in C# too? This article attempts to show how C# can be used in this way, and to explain why it often leads to shorter, simpler solutions to any programming requirements.
The .NET framework has a lot classes, with a lot of methods. So many in fact that when certain, obvious ones are missing, it’s a puzzle as to why. One such missing feature is a Reverse method for strings. Taking a collection of characters and reversing them is easy; so why is it missing?
As I wanted such a method, and didn’t want to burden the library I was writing with a disconnected feature, I created the ReversedString nuget package, which supplied it. Job done. Still, why isn’t it included in the standard framework? Experimenting with tests led me to a possible reason. Continue reading “When is a reversed string, not a reversed string?”
Many programming languages allowing optional trailing commas when declaring collections of data. Some argue it’s good practice; others (including me) that it’s bad. So why are they allowed, why do some swear by them, and why do I argue against them?
Arnolyzer is a Roslyn-based analyzer for Visual Studio 2015 that provides a set of compiler rules that encourage modern, functional-orientated, coding standards in C# 6. Pure functions; no inheritance; no global state; immutable data classes and variables; and short, concise sections of code.
In part 2 of this series, we looked at contravariance, which is a special case of generic variance, for interfaces that only allow instances of T, for ISomeInterface<T>, to be passed in, either via method parameters or through property setters (though good code will not contain the latter, of course). It’s perhaps no surprise that covariance is the opposite. Only when ISomeInterface<T> allows instances of T to be passed out (either via method returns, or property getters), can that interface be covariant.Contravariance is perhaps the hardest of the three types of generic variance to understand (at least I found it so). This article hopefully takes the reader through two examples of its use to explain what it is, before showing how it’s used for real in the .NET Framework.
This is part 2 of a three part series on generic variance in C#. Part 1, covers invariance. The final part, covers covariance.
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C#’s generic types are, by default, invariant. Special cases of covariant and contravariant can be defined though. So what does that previous gobbledygook even mean? Hopefully this three-part article will help explain these three terms, and why they even exist in the first place.
The second part of this series, looks at what is probably the least well understood of the three terms: contravariance. If you feel you understand the other two terms, feel free to jump straight to that part therefore. The third, and last, part, looks at covariance and finishes with a summary of the difference between the three. But first, we start at the beginning: invariance.
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