Re: Value type and a parameterless constructor

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For value types you can't explicitly create a parameterless constructor, because the compiler doest that.

Yes, you will still have a parameterless constructor provided by the compiler.


puzzlecracker wrote:
"The C# specification states that all value types have a default
parameterless constructor, and it uses the same syntax to call both
explicitly declared constructors and the parameterless one, relying on
the compiler to do the right thing underneath."

Does it mean that if we create a Value type with other constructors,
we will still have a parameterless constructor provided by compiler?
.

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