What does => mean?

Hi sorry for psoting here, but a quick google search yielded no results.

What does this mean...

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. =>
3.  

Source:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Social.localUser.Authenticate (success => {
3.         if (success) {
4.             Debug.Log ("Authentication successful");
5.             string userInfo = "Username: " + Social.localUser.userName +
6.                 "\nUser ID: " + Social.localUser.id +
7.                 "\nIsUnderage: " + Social.localUser.underage;
8.             Debug.Log (userInfo);
9.         }
10.         else
11.             Debug.Log ("Authentication failed");
12.     });

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb311046.aspx

 

I don't recall the technical term for it, but in that context it's essentially an inline function call, usually (including this instance) used for callbacks. In other words, you COULD do this:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Social.localUser.Authenticate(SomeCallbackFunction);
3.  
4. . . .
5.  
6. void SomeCallbackFunction(bool success) {
7. if (success) {
8. . . .
9.  

However, the person who wrote this decided that that would junk up their class too much, and therefore they preferred to just write the function in-place there.

I don't like using these myself, so I have only a passing familiarity with them (encountering them in much the same way you have - sample code from other programmers). I think they make the code look disorganized and crappy, while simultaneously making it unintuitive what code is getting executed at what time.

 

I believe it is >=, not =>

 

While >= is an operator, it is not what renman3000 did mean => and his question has already been answered.