Why doesn't the C# compiler stop properties from referring to themselves?

Question

If I do this I get a System.StackOverflowException:

private string abc = \"\";
public string Abc
{
    get
    { 
        return Abc; // Note th         


        

Answer 1

Property referring to itself does not always lead to infinite recursion and stack overflow. For example, this works fine:

int count = 0;
public string Abc
{
    count++;
    if (count < 1) return Abc;
    return "Foo";
}

Above is a dummy example, but I'm sure one could come up with useful recursive code that is similar. Compiler cannot determine if infinite recursion will happen (halting problem).

Generating a warning in the simple case would be helpful.