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It all looks really promising. Love it. I'm a little worried about "nameof" in the hand of amateur programmers though. Efficiency aside (because it's not effic

• _random_ 12y ago
  Good for reflection and renames. ReSharper helps but I don't want to rely on it.
• miketesch 12y ago
  It shouldn't have any efficiency implications. I have to imagine that it is interpreted at compile time, similar to the var keyword.
• nothrabannosir 12y ago
  It's syntactic sugar, semantically equivalent: nameof(foo) <=> "foo" Efficiency doesn't change
• darklajid 12y ago
  He explains that this is for refactoring. As others have said, I'd therefor expect this to be a purely compile-time feature that just inserts the name of the reference within. The whole reason for this keyword seems to be that you have no string ("foo") but a reference/name instead (foo). Which can be picked up easily by tools.