Question

I am currently following Microsoft’s Naming Guidelines, and so using camelCase in function parameter naming. Now suppose I would like to use the signature

public string WriteNumberInBase (int number, int base)

in some method and the compiler is complaining about the parameter name just because ‘base’ is a reserved keyword… Is there any way I can get ‘base’ to be accepted as a parameter name?

Answer 1

Try this:

public string WriteNumberInBase (int number, int @base)
//                                               ^
//                             the @ sign is used to "escape" keywords

(As a side note, in VB.NET you would do the same by putting a keyword or reserved word in square brackets, e.g. [MyBase].)

Or alternatively, simply call your parameter radix instead of base.