Well written thoughts on C#12 primary constructors. Sadly they are not really useful. At least for now.

  • MihiesOP
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    23 days ago

    Yes, but not really, because those are not readonly as they should be.

    • GetOffMyLan
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      23 days ago

      Does that really matter though? It’s a minor issue and it’s very unlikely any one would try to assign to a dependency.

      If it really matters to you declare read-only fields and assign them. You still cut out all the lines for constructor assignments as the field assignments take the same amount of space.

      • MihiesOP
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        23 days ago

        Yep, I know I could assign those manually to readonly fields or such. But then I don’t profit much and also risk of field duplication (as described in article). Also I use CodeRush to auto generate constructors for me (after manually typing all readonly fields) - that way I have less typing to do than using primary constructors. I guess CodeRush could do it the other way round as well, but still, there is problem with duplication at least. I don’t know, perhaps is subjective, but I’m avoiding primary constructors for now.