Question

I’m getting a weird error when doing this: (.net 2.0)

public overrides List<String> getSpaceballs
{
    get { return new List<String>() { "abc","def","egh" }; }
}

VS is asking for ; after (). Why?

I sure can do this:

public overrides string[] getSpaceballs
{
    get { return new string[] { "abc","def","egh" }; }
}

Answer 1

The first option is not legal 🙂

You can only do that type of initialiser on arrays.

— Edit: See Andrew Hare’s post (and others, below); it is only available in v3 and up.

— Edit again:

Just to be clear, if your compiler is of 3 or greater, you can target 2.0, to get this to work (because it’s compiled down to the code that Andrew shows, below). But if your compiler is 2, then you can’t.