Raymond has had lots of great posts over the years on how to not get a question answered. Some of the ways he points out that help ensure that a question goes unanswered are: Use a difficult or meaningless subject line. Ask a grammatically unclear...

As you might have figured out, the answer to last week's puzzle is "if the constructors and initializers run in their actual order then an initialized readonly field of reference type is guaranteed to be non null in any possible call. That guarantee cannot...

Pop quiz! What do you expect the output of this program to be? using System; class Foo { public Foo(string s) { Console.WriteLine("Foo constructor: {0}", s); } public void Bar() { } } class Base { readonly Foo baseFoo = new Foo("Base initializer...

At long last, let's get to that double-ended queue. Sorry for leaving you in suspense! Last time we came up with a non-solution -- as commenters immediately discovered, the given algorithm and data structure are deeply inefficient. However, the basic...