Floating curly braces in C#

Question

I ran across a piece of C# code today I had not seen before. The programmer defined a block of code using only curly braces (no if, class, function, etc).

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Answer 1

You can use an open and close set of curly braces to define a self containing block, which has its own scope.

This is generally not considered good programming practice, though.

Usually if someone is doing something like this, it's probably better to create a method/function in its place.