Question

In a recent interview I had this question.

Whats the error here? I know enough c# but I cant see an error. Can you?

Class x {
     protected string t1;
     public int t2;
}
Class y : x {
}

Answer 1

Well in terms of errors, we could start with Class instead of class. In terms of bad practice, virtually every line of it is a bad idea in my view:

• Non-descriptive class names (x, y)
• Class names which don’t follow .NET naming conventions
• Non-private fields
• Non-descriptive field names

Basically, the types string and int are okay here – but every other non-whitespace, non-symbolic token would need changing before I let this into a codebase…