Initializing list inline

Question

I\'m getting a weird error when doing this: (.net 2.0)

public overrides List getSpaceballs
{
    get { return new List() { \"abc\         


        

Answer 1

The first option is not legal :)

You can only do that type of initialiser on arrays.

-- Edit: See Andrew Hare's post (and others, below); it is only available in v3 and up.

-- Edit again:

Just to be clear, if your compiler is of 3 or greater, you can target 2.0, to get this to work (because it's compiled down to the code that Andrew shows, below). But if your compiler is 2, then you can't.