The following line of code in my class constructor is throwing a StackOverflowException:

myList = new string[]{};  // myList is a property of type string[]

Why is that happening? And what's the proper way to initialize an empty array?

UPDATE: The cause was in the set method, in which I was attempting to trim all values. What's wrong with this code:

set 
{
  for (int i = 0; i < myList.Length; i++)
     {
        if (myList[i] != null) myList[i] = myList[i].Trim();
     }
}