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• Closing over the loop variable, part two

  Thanks to everyone who left thoughtful and insightful comments on last week's post. More countries really ought to implement Instant Runoff Voting; it would certainly appeal to the geek crowd. Many people left complex opinions of the form "I'd prefer Read More... Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 8:18 AM by Eric Lippert | 42 Comments Filed under: C#, Breaking Changes, Lambda Expressions, foreach, closures, coin flipping

• Closing over the loop variable considered harmful

  I don't know why I haven't blogged about this one before; this is the single most common incorrect bug report we get. That is, someone thinks they have found a bug in the compiler, but in fact the compiler is correct and their code is wrong. That's a Read More... Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 6:50 AM by Eric Lippert | 121 Comments Filed under: C#, Breaking Changes, Lambda Expressions, Language Design, foreach, closures