Bill McCarthy and I have been having a distributed (distance, time) converstation about the new version aliasing feature in C# 2.0 (which I didn’t know about) and VB’s lack of support for such a feature. Bill comments that “VB should never blindly follow C#”. I completely agree – I consider this aliasing feature to be ugly and would love to see the VB guys come up with an alternative approach – so the C# guys can copy them . . .

Until then I would prefer not to have the feature, and I would also reserve the right to not do it even in the VB guys came up with something. I think its dangerous and useless except in the most bizzare scenarios. Mind you – I don’t work for Microsoft, and I am not on the C# team so it doesn’t really matter that I think :P