February 2008 - Posts

• How to not get a question answered

  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 question Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:28 AM by Eric Lippert | 18 Comments Filed under: Rants

• Why Do Initializers Run In The Opposite Order As Constructors? Part Two

  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 Read More... Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 7:25 AM by Eric Lippert | 37 Comments Filed under: C#, Puzzles, Immutability

• Why Do Initializers Run In The Opposite Order As Constructors? Part One

  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"); public Read More... Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 3:01 PM by Eric Lippert | 21 Comments Filed under: C#, Puzzles, Immutability

• Immutability in C# Part Eleven: A working double-ended queue

  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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:40 PM by Eric Lippert | 12 Comments Filed under: C#, Immutability