Anonymous IComparer implementation

Question

Is it possible to define an anonymous implementation of IComparer?

I believe Java allows anonymous classes to be defined inline - does C#?

Looking at this code I

Answer 1

C# does not allow implementing interfaces using anonymous inner classes inline, unlike Java. For simple comparisons (i.e. comparing on a single key), there is a better way to do this in C#. You can simply use the .OrderBy() method and pass in a lambda expression specifying the key.

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;


namespace Test{
    public class Test{
        public static void Main(){
            IList mylist = new List();
            for(int i=0; i<10; i++) mylist.Add(i);
            var sorted = mylist.OrderBy( x => -x );
            foreach(int x in sorted)
                Console.WriteLine(x);
        }
    }
}