How About Property Assignment And Collection Adding Like Object And Collection Initializers In C#?
C# 3.0 introduced object and collection initializers. It is now easier to initialize objects or collections:
var person = new Person { FirstName = "Paulo", LastName = "Morgado" };var persons = new List<Person> { new Person { FirstName = "Paulo", LastName = "Morgado" }, new Person { FirstName = "Luís", LastName = "Abreu" } };
var personDirectory = new Dictionary<string, Person> { { "Lisboa", new Person { FirstName = "Paulo", LastName = "Morgado" } }, { "Funchal", new Person { FirstName = "Luís", LastName = "Abreu" } } };
Wouldn't be nice to be able to do the same on already created objects and collections?
But, what would the syntax used be? Something like this?
var person = new Person(); person = { FirstName = "Paulo", LastName = "Morgado" }; var persons = new List<Person>(); persons += { new Person { FirstName = "Paulo", LastName = "Morgado" }, new Person { FirstName = "Luís", LastName = "Abreu" } }; var personDirectory = new Dictionary<string, Person>(); personDirectory += { { "Lisboa", new Person { FirstName = "Paulo", LastName = "Morgado" } }, { "Funchal", new Person { FirstName = "Luís", LastName = "Abreu" } } };
What do you think of this?