Funny looking syntax

bholtzman · October 2015

Hi, I noticed this weird syntax that I'm not sure about. Are the mismatched curly brackets good syntax in the code sample below taken from the "C# 6.0 in a Nutshell / Chapter 8 / Project Strategies /Object Initializers? I tried removing the extra closing bracket from above the class definition and adding a closing curly bracket at the end of the class definition, but was given an error in LINQPad. If this is good syntax where do I read up about it?

var names = new[] { "Tom", "Dick", "Harry", "Mary", "Jay" }.AsQueryable();

IEnumerable<TempProjectionItem> temp =
	from n in names
	select new TempProjectionItem
	{
		Original  = n,
		Vowelless = n.Replace ("a", "").Replace ("e", "").Replace ("i", "").Replace ("o", "").Replace ("u", "")
	};
	
temp.Dump();
  
}
class TempProjectionItem
{
	public string Original;      // Original name
	public string Vowelless;   // Vowel-stripped name

JoeAlbahari · October 2015

This looks like a bug in the sample. I'll fix it in the next build.

The query should read like this:
http://share.linqpad.net/354awi.linq

Funny looking syntax

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