Steven Giesel • 10/15/2022

Cursed C# - Doing shenanigans in C#

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This technical blog post demonstrates how to use C# extension methods to implement seemingly nonsensical patterns, such as iterating over an integer's digits with a foreach loop and directly awaiting a TimeSpan object. It explains the underlying compiler patterns and duck-typing that make these 'cursed' shenanigans possible.

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