What's the return type of a LINQ query?

Question

Is it IEnumerable. As far as I know, the reference always points to a class instance. What instance type does the LINQ query really point to?

Answer 1

I don't know but I guess it's an internal type. You don't have to think about the class.

In fact it could be different classes depending on the concrete query. The compiler could convert the LINQ expression to one or another implementation depending on the conditions/processing.