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Why does this lambda expression not compile?
Action a = () => throw new InvalidOperationException(); Conjecture is fine, but I would really appreciate references to the C# language specification or other documentation.
And yes, I know that the following is valid and will compile:
Action a = () => { throw new InvalidOperationException(); }; The context where I would use something like this is described on this blog post.
Hmm. I’ve got an answer, but it’s not great.
I don’t believe that there’s a ‘throw’ expression. There’s a throw statement, but not just an expression. Compare this with ‘Console.WriteLine()’ which is a method invocation expression with a void type.
As a parallel, you can’t have a switch statement, or an if statement etc as the body of a lambda on its own. You can only have an expression or a block (section 7.14).
Is that any help?