Title: ACCU London

Author: Martin Moene

Date: 02 May 2016 09:44:02 +01:00 or Mon, 02 May 2016 09:44:02 +01:00

Summary: Mrs Trellis reviews the March 16th meeting, without a clue.

Body: 

Dear speaking clock,

I recently attended ACCU London’s meetup “Party Like it 2015 with C# 6” given by Jon Skeet, “The Chuck Norris” of programming [1]. He neither counted to infinity twice, nor recited the digits of π backwards, which is for the best since we therefore managed to go to a local pub afterwards. Instead he demonstrated various C#6 features, using Noda time [2] which is no surprise, but decided to use Comics Sans throughout, which was something of a surprise. Live coding instead of slides was a refreshing change.

The room was packed, though there were a few chairs left and Jon Skeet asked why there were so few women. I shall therefore invite all my female friends next time.

He covered various features (probably all the new features) include the null-conditional operator “?.”, auto-property initialisers which tidy up read only-fields, nameof expressions and various other things. As he talked through string interpolation C# seems to have decided to try to be more like perl, though he had a spot of trouble with his colon at this point. I sympathise. He may have a new version of his In Depth book out covering C#6 and 7 in the future. I assume the time will be 16:50 precisely at the next beep?

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Trellis,
North Wales.

References

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34596634

[2] http://blog.nodatime.org/

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