cs_specification.md

Specification of the C# Base Language Features

The C# base language mirrors the following features of C# 5.0:

• Members:
  • Namespace,
  • Struct,
  • Enumeration,
  • Class,
  • Interface,
  • Array.
• Class/Struct members:
  • Constructors,
  • Methods,
  • Fields,
  • Properties,
  • Constants.
• Modifiers for the following members:
  • Class,
  • Constant,
  • Field,
  • Method,
  • Property,
  • Accessor,
  • Constructor,
  • Struct,
  • Interface,
  • Enum.
• Inheritance:
  • Class inheritance,
  • Interface implementation.
• Built-in types:
  • Integral types (8,16,32,64 bits, signed and unsigned),
  • Floating-point types (float, double),
  • Decimal,
  • Bool,
  • String,
  • Char,
  • Object.
• Literals (full syntax support)
• Variables:
  • Static,
  • Instance,
  • Local,
  • Arguments (value, output, reference).
• Generics (definition and usage)
• Comments
• Expressions
  • Method calls,
  • Assignment,
  • Operators.
• Statements:
  • Iteration statements:
    • While,
    • Do,
    • For,
    • Foreach.
  • Jump statements:
    • Break,
    • Continue,
    • Goto,
    • Return,
    • Throw.
  • Selection statements (conditional-jump statements):
    • If-else,
    • Switch.
  • Blocks of statements,
  • Partial support of checked/unchecked statements,
  • Partial support of lock statements,
  • Partial support of try statements.
• Delegate + modifier
• Partial types (only syntactically)