Question

By default, an array of reference types gets initialised with all references as null.

Is there any kind of syntax trick to initialise them with new default objects instead?

eg

public class Child
{
}

public class Parent
{
    private Child[] _children = new Child[10];

    public Parent()
    {
        //any way to negate the need for this?
        for (int n = 0; n < _children.Length; n++)
           _children[n] = new Child();
    }
}

Answer 1

Use LINQ:

 private Child[] _children = Enumerable
                                 .Range(1, 10)
                                 .Select(i => new Child())
                                 .ToArray();