The issue is that I dislike the overall mentality of just adding a bunch of language features. Things just seem to be dumped in each release and I think to myself "When I am going to use that?".
> Would you say that these samples show no benefit to using the "is" operator?
I didn't say no benefit. I said dubious benefit.
I didn't really want to get into discussing specific operators, but lets just use your date example:
if (date is { Month: 10, Day: <=7, DayOfWeek: DayOfWeek.Friday }) { ... }
This following would do the same thing before the
is operator:
static bool IsFirstFridayOfOctober(DateTime date)
{
return date.Month == 10
&& date.Day <= 7
&& date.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Friday;
}
And then:
if IsFirstFridayOfOctober(date) {
...
}
I understand it is more verbose. But do we really need a new operator for this? I was getting on fine without it.
Each release there seems to be more of these language features and half the time I have a hard time remembering that they even exist.
Each time I meet with other .NET developers either virtually or in Person they all seem to be salivating over this stuff and I feel like I've walked in on some sort of cult meeting.
> Would you say that these samples show no benefit to using the "is" operator?
I didn't say no benefit. I said dubious benefit.
I didn't really want to get into discussing specific operators, but lets just use your date example:
This following would do the same thing before the is operator: And then: I understand it is more verbose. But do we really need a new operator for this? I was getting on fine without it.Each release there seems to be more of these language features and half the time I have a hard time remembering that they even exist.
Each time I meet with other .NET developers either virtually or in Person they all seem to be salivating over this stuff and I feel like I've walked in on some sort of cult meeting.