Creating an empty strongly typed list of … an anonymous type (What?!)

Inspecting the code repository of a client, I found something like this:

var customer = new
{
    Id = default(int),
    Name = default(string)
};

var list = new int[0].Select(i => customer).ToList();

I confess that I needed some time to understand it. But, after some consideration, I figured out that what this code is doing is to create an empty strongly typed list of … an anonymous type.

Smart code. Yeah! But, please, don’t do that.