Shortening default(T) is the same problem as removing the redundant cast
around a lambda whose delegate type the context already fixes, so it uses
the same mechanism: ConvertTo makes the explicit type implicit when the
conversion is an identity conversion and the caller allows an implicit
one. The literal keeps the type it was shortened from, so any later
conversion to a different type - or any context that requires an explicit
type, such as an overload resolution recheck falling back to CastArguments
- can spell default(T) out again. That keeps the value intact where the
bare literal would change it, e.g. "object o = default(SomeStruct)", which
boxes a non-null struct while "default" would be null.
Because the shortened literal resolves to DefaultLiteralResolveResult,
CallBuilder's existing overload resolution recheck sees a real default
literal and rejects ambiguous calls on its own; no separate bookkeeping
about which arguments may stay untyped is needed. Only the contexts that
supply no target type at all restore the explicit form: an awaited
expression, and arguments of operator methods, which later become operator
or cast syntax rather than calls.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5[1m]:Claude Code
Under UseLambdaSyntax, anonymous functions became lambdas only when an
expression body was possible; statement-bodied ones kept C# 2 delegate
syntax. Now every anonymous function whose parameter shape a lambda can
express uses lambda syntax; delegate syntax remains for ref/out/in and
params parameters and for pre-C# 3 language profiles.
Two latent issues surfaced by the wider lambda coverage: DeclareVariables
assumed an insertion point directly under a LambdaExpression is an
expression body it must convert to a block, which block-bodied lambdas
now violate; and anonymous methods declared without a parameter list
carry compiler-generated parameter names like '<p0>' that are not valid
identifiers, so the lambda's mandatory parameter list regenerates such
names from the parameter type: (object obj, EventArgs e) => ...
A side effect visible in fixtures: an explicit parameter list can make
a delegate-creation cast redundant that bare 'delegate' syntax needed
for overload resolution, e.g. new Thread((ThreadStart)delegate { })
becomes new Thread(() => { }).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
CS8196 also fires when the second reference sits inside a nested call
in another argument of the declaring call, e.g.
OutAndValue(out var a, UseAndReturn(out a)). The existing check already
covers this because it walks all descendants of the sibling arguments;
this fixture pins that behavior.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Passing the same local as multiple out arguments of one call made
DeclareVariables turn the first use into an implicitly-typed declaration,
producing 'f(out var x, out x)'. Referencing an implicitly-typed out
variable in another argument of the declaring call is rejected by the
compiler (CS8196), because its type is only inferred once overload
resolution of that call has completed. The explicitly-typed form
'f(out int x, out x)' is valid, so fall back to the explicit type in
that case.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Record AST transform groups and mutation steps through the C# pipeline, replay selected steps with the stepper, and carry modified-node ranges through output so the Debug Steps pane can highlight the selected mutation without replacing its full step tree.
Assisted-by: CodeAlta:gpt-5.5:CodeAlta
Christoph Wille
Siegfried Pammer
Peter Crabtree
Daniel Grunwald
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