LDM Notes for March 2nd, 2022

[333fred]

https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2022/LDM-2022-03-02.md

Agenda

1. Open questions in field
   1. Initializers
   2. Property assignment in structs

[PathogenDavid]

A thought I had while reading the related discussion on the C# Discord, was it considered to have the field initialization be explicit to avoid the ambiguity? IE:

record struct Rec(int Item)
{
    public int Item { get; set => value < 0 ? throw new Exception() : field = value; field = Item; }
}

It's not quite as terse, but I think it makes it more obvious you're assigning the field rather than invoking the setter.

Should the team ever chose to pursue them, I think this would also evolve more elegantly towards property-scoped fields and/or having a different type for the backing field. (Assuming it doesn't create a parsing nightmare.)