It's been a while since i wrote the last post, but i did not forget my purpose of creating a series that shows the evolution of C#. Today i came here to talk about one of the most useful features of C#, even if you dont know you're using it. Let's talk about iterators ! What is an iterator? For those of you who didn't read about the iterator pattern somewhere in the internet or in the "Gang of Four" book, you can read a description here . The iterator is a class/object/whatever which knows how to traverse a structure. So, if you have a list or collection of objects, an iterator would have the knowledge of how to traverse that collection and access each element that it contains. The iterator is a well known design pattern and is behind many of the wonderful that we have nowadays in .NET (Linq comes to mind). Why is it a feature? Truth be told, an iterator is a concept well known way before .NET even existed. Being an OO Design Pattern, the iterator has...
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