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emodendroket on Oct 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration

Why hate extension methods? Do you really want to write Enumerable.ToList(Enumerable.Select(Enumerable.Where(someList, e => e.someBool), e => new {a = e.x, b = e.y)) and so on?

positivecomment on Oct 27, 2017 [–]

That would suck, on the other hand, the extension methods make people create huge chains continuations of which comes from who knows where.

Best solution would have been a pipe operator if you ask me.

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