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Question by Kensei · Sep 06, 2014 at 05:53 PM · c#eventvaluereturndelegate

What part of the delegate gets passed back?The return type?

I'm a little bit confused about this. Here's the example by a user called LightStriker that made it click for me, but there's one thing I don't get.

 public class One
     {
         public delegate void Enter (int x);
  
         // Static is only needed if you want it to be static. It's like a variable.
         // If the event is related to an instance, it should not be static.
         public event Enter OnEntered;
  
         public void Enter()
         {
             int myInt = 0;
             if (DateTime.Now.IsDaylightSavingTime())
                 myInt = 1;
  
             // It is up to you to fire an event.
             if (OnEntered != null)
                 OnEntered(myInt)
         };
     }
  
     public class Two
     {
         private One one;
  
         public Two()
         {
             one = new One();
             one.OnEntered += Method;
         }
  
         private void Method (int y)
         {
             if (y == 1)
                 Debug.Log("Day Time Saving!");
             else
                 Debug.Log("No saving.");
         }
     }

My current understanding is that Enter (int x) sends the parameter to the subscribing method in another class. Just like in the example and int Enter is set to either 0 or 1 and then when the event is fired, that int is passed in as a parameter and is read by the subscribed class.

Now what if I had a return type other than void?

If I had a

     public delegate float Number (int x);
     public event Number OnNum;

then would that mean that the subscribing method in another class will get the int from here, but return a float to the delegate? I've read that it isn't a good idea to have an event with a return type, but I never quite gathered as to why was that so bad. At any rate I'd appreciate some clarification on the matter.

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Answer by MakeCodeNow · Sep 08, 2014 at 04:48 AM

Events can have multiple subscribers. The return value from the Event will be the value from the last subscriber called. All the rest will be lost, which makes the whole feature kind of pointless. Here's a bit more from stackoverflow.

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