Here is a new addition to the C# language in version 4 that doesn’t seem to be getting much attention. The type inference algorithm has become smarter and for the first time we are able to infer generic type arguments from the return types of methods in certain cases. Consider this example that compiles in [...]
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Smarter type inference with C# 4
03-Nov-09C# 3 gave us the lambda expression and ever since we have been using them to create abstract representations of terse, anonymous functions. While expressive and helpful, they are not always needed. Consider this example: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; class Example { static void Main() { new List<Int32> { 1, 2, 3 } .ForEach(i => [...]