New in C#4

[Bent Rasmussen]

The nestable object literal syntax obsoletes some cases where constructutors 
were used before, and where named arguments would be used, but clearly not 
all (deterministic initialization) - it can be used to initialize properties 
via new Person() { First = "Bob", Last = "Smith" }; I can't remember the 
exact syntax.

- Bent

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> skrev i meddelelsen 
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> Thanks to Reddit I have found a nice short document that lists some of the 
> differences of C#4:
> https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcj4xk6_17ffc7nmgv
>
> They have added a dynamic invocation, useful if you want to implement a 
> dynamic language (like IronPython, IronRuby, etc) on top of the dotnet. 
> Object-C shows this is doable in a very C-like language, and the Boo 
> language shows that in a statically typed language it can be useful to use 
> a Duck type once in a while to reduce the "static type pressure". More 
> info on this last concept in the Boo site.
>
> Something that I like a lot is the named arguments, that I hope to see in 
> D and Delight someday. They are used often in Python, and they help 
> increase the readability of the code, sometimes even reducing mistakes.
> They have used colons:
> foo(x: 1, z: 3)
> While Python uses equal signs:
> foo(x=1, z=3)
> I think they are about equally readable.
> (I think there's a problem with named arguments, that you can solve in 
> some ways, for example with an extra hidden bitfield argument that encodes 
> what arguments are given and what not).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile