How can I enumerate an infinite sequence of integers in C#?

Question

Is there a function in C# that returns an IEnumerator of the infinite sequence of integers [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ...]?

I'm currently doing

Enumerable.Range (0, 1000000000).Select (x => x * x).TakeWhile (x => (x <= limit))  

to enumerate all squares up to limit. I realize that this is effective, but if there's a built-in function that just counts up from 0, I would prefer to use it.

Answer 1

Well, you can't really have an infinite sequence, since int only has 32 bits. But you can go up to int.MaxValue, using Enumerable.Range(0, int.MaxValue). There's no built-in function for this.

Answer 2

Integers are not infinite, once you get to the end, it will overflow. So essentially the best you can do this:

Enumerable.Range (0, int.MaxValue).Select (x => x * x).TakeWhile (x => (x <= limit))  

If you want larger ranges, you could choose different types:

Enumerable.Range (0, long.MaxValue).Select (x => x * x).TakeWhile (x => (x <= limit))  
Enumerable.Range (0, double.MaxValue).Select (x => x * x).TakeWhile (x => (x <= limit))  

Note that since you're squaring the values, the above samples would overflow at some point (namely at the square root of MaxValue).