public static field vs public property with get for Functions

[Yulin Wu]

In Chapter07's solution, you had Remainder defined as

public static Func<int, int, int> Remainder = (dividend, divisor)
     => dividend - ((dividend / divisor) * divisor);

why don't we have them as public property? what's the difference?

public static Func<Dividend, Divisor, int> Remainder
{
    get { return (dividend, divisor) => dividend - (dividend / divisor) * divisor; }
}

In expression body:

public static Func<int, int, int> Remainder => (dividend, divisor)
     => dividend - ((dividend / divisor) * divisor);

[Enrico]

Well this seems a rather vacuous question. If you had it as a property, then you may equally ask "why not have it as a field?" In relation to your question "what's the difference", the answer is: exactly one character (in the declaring class, which is irrelevant), and no difference in the consumer code. So, I generally tend to prefer the simplest possible solution that gives me the desired effect, and would say that a field is simpler than a property.

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[Atif Aziz]

In relation to your question "what's the difference", the answer is: exactly one character

Actually, you would need to add the readonly modifier as well to make the field match the property:

public static readonly Func<int, int, int> Remainder = (dividend, divisor)
     => dividend - ((dividend / divisor) * divisor);

So now the difference is more than one character. 😉

[Enrico]

Yes, that's correct.

And, since it's functional programming, you never want to reassign global variables, so that in real life you'd always want to specify readonly, although in the book I probably omitted that, when it was not particularly relevant to the topic at hand, to make the examples less verbose.