In c# you can create variables named identically to a keyword by using @languagekeyword.
My question is, when would this be useful? When would the benefits out-weigh the drawbacks?
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The CLR can be targeted by many different programming languages. One language’s identifier is another language’s keyword. It would be bad if a class library written in one language couldn’t be used from another language because a declared method or property has a name that is a keyword in that language.