Curious C# using statement expansion

Question

I\'ve run ildasm to find that this:

    using(Simple simp = new Simple())
    {
        Console.WriteLine(\"here\");
    }

generates IL cod

Answer 1

No, the finally block will ALWAYS be executed. You may not be getting the object from a new but from some other function that returns your object - and it might return NULL. using() is your friend!

dss539 was kind enough to suggest I include his note:

using(Simple simp = null) 

is yet another reason that the expansion must check for null first.