Anonymous methods
Sometimes I wish I was using C# instead of Visual Basic :-( And anonymous methods are one of the things that tend to bring that wish to the surface. Consider the following code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
classProgram
{
staticvoid Main(string[] args)
{
List<DemoEntity> list = newList<DemoEntity>();
list.Add(newDemoEntity(1, "one"));
list.Add(newDemoEntity(2, "two"));
list.Add(newDemoEntity(3, "three"));
string theId = "two";
DemoEntity found;
found = list.Find(delegate(DemoEntity obj) { return (obj.Id == theId); });
Console.WriteLine(found.Id);
found = list.Find(delegate(DemoEntity obj) { return (obj.Number == 3});
Console.WriteLine(found.Id);
found = list.Find(delegate(DemoEntity obj) { return (obj.Number == 1 && obj.Id == "one"); });
Console.WriteLine(found.Id);
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
classDemoEntity
{
publicstring Id;
publicint Number;
public DemoEntity(int number, string id)
{
Number = number;
Id = id;
}
}
}
Nice and elegant :-) To do the same in VB I would have to write three additional functions and store the variables to search for in fields, yuck :-(
Please, please, pretty please can we have anonymous methods in VB 9?