.net - Auto-initializing C# lists

Question

I am creating a new C# List (List<double>). Is there a way, other than to do a loop over the list, to initialize all the starting values to 0?

Answer 1

In addition to the functional solutions provided (using the static methods on the Enumerable class), you can pass an array of doubles in the constructor.

var tenDoubles = new List<double>(new double[10]);

This works because the default value of an double is already 0, and probably performs slightly better.