Razor: Render does not work inside code block

Question

This seems very strange to me, if I do

@RenderSection("scripts", required: false)

then it works perfectly fine, but if I do

@{
    RenderSection("scripts", required: false);
}

then the scripts section will not get rendered and I would get "The following sections have been defined but have not been rendered for the layout page "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml": "scripts"." error

Any idea why RenderSection/Script.Render cannot be inside a code block?

Edit: I have tried to put a break point inside the code block and the break point is getting hit when the page loads, and the RenderSection method executes without any exception

Answer 1

RenderSection does not write anything. Instead this methods returns an HelperResult which implements IHtmlString and can be render to the page by using its WriteTo method.

@{
    HelperResult renderSection = RenderSection("scripts", required: false);
    renderSection.WriteTo(Output);
}

When using @RenderSection it automatically render it to the page