In C#, is there a way to write custom object initializers for new data-types?

Question

In C#, there\'s the \"standard\" initializer technique { Property1 = \"a\", Property2 = \"b\" }, and there are a couple of special variants for collections (list and dictionary)

Answer 1

Using a variadic local lambda n that simply calls your constructor, you could get it as short as:

n(item1, n(item2, item3, item4), n(item5, item6))

Update: something like

var n = (params Node[] nodes) => new Node(nodes);