Instead, C# uses the default operator to initialize such values: // ----- This also sets someValue to 0 (zero). int someValue = default(int); The role of Nothing as an initializer makes for some ...

Whatever the cause, the good news is that you can easily emulate this Visual Basic feature in C# with a simple type-level helper field or property: // ----- Initialization before the first use.

C# 7.0, for example, is adding integrated support for tuples and pattern matching syntax, the latest language features showing significant influence from functional programming languages like ML ...