Daniel Irvine

What if C#….

• had no properties?
• had only private fields?
• fields were readonly by default?
• had no mutable static fields?
• had no static methods or static classes?
• prohibited passing null as method parameters?
• integrated specs/test with code, in the same file?
• only allowed one class per file?
• prohibited nested classes?
• had syntax distinguishing between class dependencies and notifications with special syntax?
• enforced command-query separation from methods?

Some of these ideas are almost unworkable, some are fundamental to the cause and some are just “my style”.  In a future post I’ll go over each in detail and see how they can be implemented–maybe I’ll just hack a few FxCop rules together and be done with it.