The implementation of iterators in C# and its consequences (part 1)

Raymond Chen August 12, 2008 Aug 12, 2008 08/12/08

Like anonymous methods, iterators in C# are very complex syntactic sugar. You could do it all yourself (after all, you did have to do it all yourself in earlier versions of C#), but the compiler transformation makes for much greater convenience. The idea behind iterators is that they take a function with yield return statements (and ...