Appendix A. Keywords in C#
Keywords are reserved and cannot be used as identifiers. If you really want to choose a C# keyword as an identifier name, prefix it with a @. [1] For example, @new is a legal identifier but new is not.
[1] Highly discouraged by myself - there are lots of other words you can choose for your identifiers.
Table A.1 shows the list of C# keywords, and the chapters in which they are described in this book. Of all the C# keywords, only extern and stackalloc are beyond the scope of this book.
| Keyword | Comments | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| abstract | Modifier – used to declare a class or class member as abstract | 6 |
| as | Operator – a convenient combination of the typeof and is operators | 10 |
| base | Used to invoke a constructor in the super(base)class ... |
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