How many keywords I can fit into a single C# expression?
As I was playing few days ago with “yield return await“ I got an idea to try fit as much “keywords” as possible into one “expression”. I mean as much blue words (in Visual Studio’s default colors) as possible together (not separated by semicolon, comma, colon, bracket, etc.).
Obviously yield return await gives us 3 together. One can also do yield return this, yield return base or yield return sizeof(...). But that’s still just 3. Can I do more? While I was waiting for my car on a yearly checkup, hence I was not mindlessly wasting time, I came up with 7.
class C
{
async Task Test()
{
switch (this)
{
case null when await this is false:
break;
}
}
public System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter<bool?> GetAwaiter() => default;
}
The case null when await this is false is the answer. At this point I ran out of time as I received a message from the garage that my car is ready. Maybe you can come up with even longer solution and I’m eager to see it.
