Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Multiline Lambdas

With multiline lambdas, you have the ability to write complete anonymous delegates within a line of code, as demonstrated in the following snippet:

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Console.WriteLine("Enter a number:")Dim number = CDbl(Console.ReadLine)Dim result = Function(n As Double)                 If n < 0 Then                     Return 0                 Else                     Return n + 1                 End If             End FunctionConsole.WriteLine(result(number))

In this particular case, the compiler can infer the System.Func(Of Double, Double) result type because the n argument is of type Double. Within the method body, you can perform required evaluations, and you can also explicitly specify the return type (take ...