[DotNetDevelopment] No implicit conversion between method group and method group

[Joe Enos]

Kind of a weird issue here - not really a problem, but I'm hoping
someone can explain it...

Suppose I have a delegate variable and want to assign to it
conditionally based on the value of a boolean.  For example:

public static int DoSomething() { return 1; }
public static int DoSomethingElse() { return 2; }

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
   bool b = GetSomeBoolean();

   /* Method #1 - This does not work - gives me a compile-time error:
error CS0173: Type of conditional expression cannot be determined
because there is no implicit conversion between 'method group' and
'method group'
   */
   Func<int> myFunc = b ? DoSomething : DoSomethingElse;

   // the following three work fine

   /* Method #2 */
   Func<int> myFunc;
   if (b) myFunc = DoSomething; else myFunc = DoSomethingElse;

   /* Method #3 */
   Func<int> myFunc = b ? new Func<int>(DoSomething) :
DoSomethingElse;

   /* Method #4 */
   Func<int> myFunc = b ? DoSomething : new Func<int>
(DoSomethingElse);
}

Any ideas on why method #1 doesn't work?  Obviously there are at least
three other ways of writing this statement (#2,3,4), but I'm curious
as to why #1 fails at compile time, and even more curious why 2, 3,
and 4 work when 1 doesn't.  #3 and #4 are identical to #1, except one
method group is wrapped inside of a constructor for Func, which I
thought was always optional.

No big deal, but it's just bugging me...

Thanks

Joe