The Old New Thing

August 14, 2008 - The Old New Thing

The gradual erosion of the car trip experience

August 14, 2008 Aug 14, 2008 08/14/08
Raymond Chen
How will kids today learn to get along with their siblings? I just learned that another of the basic childhood conflict resolution scenarios has disappeared, thanks to the dual-screen DVD player and entertainment system for your car, so each kid can remain content without the burden of having to interact with their annoying brother or sister...

The implementation of iterators in C# and its consequences (part 3)

August 14, 2008 Aug 14, 2008 08/14/08
Raymond Chen
I mentioned that there was an exception to the general statement that the conversion of an iterator into traditional C# code is something you could have done yourself. That's true, and it was also a pun, because the exception is exception handling. If you have a try ... finally block in your iterator, the language executes the finally ...