> IEnumerable implicitly offers early termination. LINQ expressions are always implicit by default, so .Select(...).Take(n) will stop after taking N items. My

> IEnumerable implicitly offers early termination. LINQ expressions are always implicit by default, so .Select(...).Take(n) will stop after taking N items. My bad, indeed it does! (Embarassing, my job used to be working on LINQ-based ORM libs. Though more than a decade back.)