Why ref locals allow only a single binding?
Current restriction on ref locals to be single-assignable is a straightforward and simple way to guard against several potential problems. There are ways to ...
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Definite Assignment Analysis of locals. The real purpose.
Definite Assignment Analysis prevents bugs, but there are deeper reasons to have it as a required feature in the language.
Conditional member access operator (idiomatic uses).
Here are some of the less known uses of Null-conditional operator that could be handy to know.
Safe to return rules for ref returns.
For the reasons explained in the earlier post, C# disallows returning local variables by reference. While the principle of “Cannot return local variables by ...
Local variables cannot be returned by reference.
Ability to return by reference introduces an interesting scenario.- What happens when a local variable is returned by reference? Is the variable still alive ...