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• C# 3.0 Return Type Inference Does Not Work On Method Groups

  Thanks all for your excellent feedback on my variance series. I am still reading and digesting the feedback and I shall take it to the language design committee later this month. Returning to less hypothetical but equally complicated issues, today, what Read More... Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 10:48 AM by Eric Lippert | 16 Comments Filed under: C#, Type Inference

• Type inference woes, part four

  Last time in this series I discussed how we are probably going to identify a "best" type from a set of expressions. Clearly we need to solve this problem for features such as implicitly typed arrays. We are also considering extending this algorithm to Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:30 AM by Eric Lippert | 8 Comments Filed under: C#, Type Inference

• What Are The Semantics Of Multiple Implicitly Typed Declarations? Part Two

  Many thanks for all your input in my informal poll yesterday. The results were similar to other "straw polls" we've done over the last couple of months. In this particular poll the results were: var a=A, b=B; where the expressions are of different types Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:08 AM by Eric Lippert | 26 Comments Filed under: C#, Type Inference

• What Are The Semantics Of Multiple Implicitly Typed Declarations? Part One

  In my earlier series on inferring a unique "best" type from a set of expressions I mentioned that one potential application of such an algorithm is in implicitly typed variables. This led to some good questions and concerns posted in the comments - questions Read More... Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 11:02 AM by Eric Lippert | 21 Comments Filed under: C#, Type Inference

• Type inference woes, part three

  There were a lot of good comments and questions posted in the last two entries which deserve answers. However, I am once more off to the beaver-shark infested shores of the great Canadian inland sea for my annual summer vacation. I'll get to them when Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 6:58 AM by Eric Lippert | 10 Comments Filed under: C#, Type Inference

• Type inference woes, part two

  So what's the big deal anyway? The difference between the spec and the implementation is subtle, only affects a few specific and rather unlikely scenarios, and can always be worked around by inserting casts if you need to. Fixing the implementation would Read More... Posted Friday, May 26, 2006 9:29 AM by Eric Lippert | 2 Comments Filed under: C#, Type Inference

• Delegates, Lambdas, Type Inference and Long Playing Records

  Today is my 33 1/3rd birthday! I'm one third of the way through my first century. I feel like I should go buy some LPs to celebrate, not that I have anything that will play them. In other news, someone sent me this code the other day. Suppose you've got Read More... Posted Friday, March 31, 2006 10:17 AM by Eric Lippert | 3 Comments Filed under: C#, Lambda Expressions, Type Inference

• C# 3.0 is still statically typed, honest!

  Since LINQ was announced I've seen a lot of really positive feedback and a lot of questions and concerns. Keep 'em coming! We need this feedback so that we can both correct misconceptions early and get the design right now. One of the misconceptions that Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:03 AM by Eric Lippert | 23 Comments Filed under: JScript .NET, JScript, C#, Type Inference