As I mentioned the other day, I’m reading Jeffrey Richter’s book CLR via C# right now. I was kind of surprised to read this statement by the author: “If I had been involved in the design of the .NET Framework and compilers, I would not have offered properties at all…” (p. 218) Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been reading Jeffrey Richter’s CLR via C# lately, and just read a section titled “Declaring a Method’s Parameter Types”. That title doesn’t exactly promise a riveting read, but it did a nice job of articulating some guidelines for method parameter and return types, independent of any particular programming language.

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