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Re:New Features in C# 6 (2014) by _pmf_ on Monday January 12, 2015 @05:57AM (#8873238)
I've always wondered why a feature with so much benefits and such low implementation overhead has not been implemented a long time ago.
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Re:New Features in C# 6 (2014) by akoeplinger on Monday January 12, 2015 @07:10AM (#8873449)
There are many edge cases you need to consider, so a seemingly simple language feature can become hard to get right quickly.

I highly recommend reading through https://roslyn.codeplex.com/discussions/570551 and the other four revisions of the nameof() spec, they do a very good job at explaining the tradeoffs of each design.

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