return a = “hello”; What will Happen?

added by shayfriedman

4/29/2010 1:00:52 AM

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I came across an interesting piece of code the other day, something I didn’t even know possible in C# - return a = "hello";. What do you think this line returns?

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zychr

5/1/2010 3:37:23 PM

Shay,
It would first assign a to "hello" and then return "hello" because of the assignment operator's chaining effect (i.e. a = b = c = ...).
HTH,
zychr