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C# Querying With LINQ Functional Programming in C# Actions and Funcs

Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points
Posted by Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points

Action and Func Challange

Trying to pass the challenge, and just as I'm getting my head around the syntax and reasons of delegates, The challenge asks my to use the Func<> as a parameter for the Action<>

This code won't compile, I'm not sure why or where to begin even...

Thanks in Advance

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class Program
    {

        public Func<int, int> Square = delegate(int number)
        {
        return number * number;
        };

        public Action<int, Func<int,int>> DisplayResult;

        DisplayResult = delegate (int result, Func<int,int> operation)
        {

        };




    }
}
David Valentin
David Valentin
7,058 Points
  • Might not be right conceptually, but correct answer* In terms of your code, your declaring an Action delegate called DisplayResult, then your calling Display result and assigning it to a new delegate that takes
  1. int result
  2. Func<int,int> operation

First the reason why your solution is incorrect is because your not assigning your Action to a delegate which takes an (int, Func<int,int>) as its parameters.

        public Action<int, Func<int,int>> DisplayResult;

        DisplayResult = delegate (int result, Func<int,int> operation)
        {

        };

Solution:

        public Func<int, int> Square = delegate (int number)
        {
            return number * number;
        };

        public Action<int, Func<int, int>> DisplayResult = delegate (int result, Func<int, int> operation)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(operation(result));
        };
Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points
Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points

This won't compile either, It will only work when the DisplayResult Delegate is called on the same statement as the Action<> ???

Still figuring out the Actions and Funcs, but in the video she is able to call the delegate's and the Action/Func separately in separate statements......

Find any good resources for Actions/Funcs outside of the MSDN or Treehouse?

     public Func<int, int> Square = delegate (int number)
        {
            return number * number;
        };

        public Action<int, Func<int, int>> DisplayResult;

        DisplayResult = delegate (int result, Func<int, int> operation)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(operation(result));
        };

1 Answer

David Valentin
David Valentin
7,058 Points
David Valentin
David Valentin
7,058 Points

Yeah, I saw that she declared it too, and that threw me off as well. Apparently you have to do it all in one line. :/

I dropped your code in Visual Studio, a C# Editor, and basically your issue is your declaring DisplayResult as an Action without any delegate, than assigning a delegate to it, so the compiler will whine to you saying, "There already exists a definition of DisplayResults. "

During compile time you have these two declarations of DisplayResults.

I'm pretty sure its because C# is (partially) strongly typed. The way you have it declared DisplayResults is that its an action delegate type, and than later its given more detail, when you should immediately declare all the details of your variable like its input params during its declaration.

C# Strongly Typed/Weakly Typed: https://ericlippert.com/2012/10/15/is-c-a-strongly-typed-or-a-weakly-typed-language/

Hope that helps!