Some help understanding “yield”

Question

In my everlasting quest to suck less I\'m trying to understand the \"yield\" statement, but I keep encountering the same error.

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Answer 1

It's a tricky topic. In a nutshell, it's an easy way of implementing IEnumerable and its friends. The compiler builds you a state machine, transforming parameters and local variables into instance variables in a new class. Complicated stuff.

I have a few resources on this:

• Chapter 6 of C# in Depth (free download from that page)
• Iterators, iterator blocks and data pipelines (article)
• Iterator block implementation details (article)