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

First of all, you'll get a warning for unused variable abc.

Second, there is nothing bad in teh recursion, provided that it's not endless recursion. For example, the code might adjust some inner variables and than call the same getter recursively. There is however for the compiler no easy way at all to prove that some recursion is endless or not (the task is at least NP). The compiler could catch some easy cases, but then the consumers would be surprised that the more complicated cases get through the compiler's checks.