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ECMA 334 - Especificação da linguagem C#. Em inglês.

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ECMA-334
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C# Language
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C# Language

Specification

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword ...................................................................................................................................................... xvii

    1. Scope Introduction xix
    1. Conformance
    1. Normative references
    1. Definitions
    1. Notational conventions................................................................................................................................
    1. Acronyms and abbreviations
    1. General description
    1. Language overview....................................................................................................................................
    • 8.1 Getting started
    • 8.2 Types
      • 8.2.1 Predefined types
      • 8.2.2 Conversions
      • 8.2.3 Array types
      • 8.2.4 Type system unification
    • 8.3 Variables and parameters
    • 8.4 Automatic memory management
    • 8.5 Expressions
    • 8.6 Statements
    • 8.7 Classes
      • 8.7.1 Constants
      • 8.7.2 Fields
      • 8.7.3 Methods
      • 8.7.4 Properties
      • 8.7.5 Events
      • 8.7.6 Operators
      • 8.7.7 Indexers
      • 8.7.8 Instance constructors
      • 8.7.9 Finalizers
      • 8.7.10 Static constructors
      • 8.7.11 Inheritance
      • 8.7.12 Static classes
      • 8.7.13 Partial type declarations
    • 8.8 Structs
    • 8.9 Interfaces
    • 8.10 Delegates
    • 8.11 Enums
    • 8.12 Namespaces and assemblies
    • 8.13 Versioning
    • 8.14 Extern aliases.......................................................................................................................................
    • 8.15 Attributes
    • 8.16 Generics...............................................................................................................................................
      • 8.16.1 Why generics? C# LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION
      • 8.16.2 Creating and consuming generics
      • 8.16.3 Multiple type parameters..............................................................................................................
      • 8.16.4 Constraints
      • 8.16.5 Generic methods
    • 8.17 Anonymous methods
    • 8.18 Iterators
    • 8.19 Nullable types......................................................................................................................................
    1. Lexical structure........................................................................................................................................
    • 9.1 Programs
    • 9.2 Grammars
      • 9.2.1 Lexical grammar
      • 9.2.2 Syntactic grammar
      • 9.2.3 Grammar ambiguities
    • 9.3 Lexical analysis
      • 9.3.1 Line terminators
      • 9.3.2 Comments
      • 9.3.3 White space
    • 9.4 Tokens
      • 9.4.1 Unicode escape sequences
      • 9.4.2 Identifiers
      • 9.4.3 Keywords
      • 9.4.4 Literals
        • 9.4.4.1 Boolean literals........................................................................................................................
        • 9.4.4.2 Integer literals..........................................................................................................................
        • 9.4.4.3 Real literals..............................................................................................................................
        • 9.4.4.4 Character literals
        • 9.4.4.5 String literals
        • 9.4.4.6 The null literal
      • 9.4.5 Operators and punctuators..............................................................................................................
    • 9.5 Pre-processing directives.......................................................................................................................
      • 9.5.1 Conditional compilation symbols
      • 9.5.2 Pre-processing expressions
      • 9.5.3 Declaration directives.....................................................................................................................
      • 9.5.4 Conditional compilation directives
      • 9.5.5 Diagnostic directives
      • 9.5.6 Region control
      • 9.5.7 Line directives
      • 9.5.8 Pragma directives
    1. Basic concepts
    • 10.1 Application startup
    • 10.2 Application termination.......................................................................................................................
    • 10.3 Declarations.........................................................................................................................................
    • 10.4 Members
      • 10.4.1 Namespace members
      • 10.4.2 Struct members
      • 10.4.3 Enumeration members
      • 10.4.4 Class members
      • 10.4.5 Interface members
      • 10.4.6 Array members
      • 10.4.7 Delegate members
    • 10.5 Member access
      • 10.5.1 Declared accessibility...................................................................................................................
      • 10.5.2 Accessibility domains Table of Contents
      • 10.5.3 Protected access for instance members
      • 10.5.4 Accessibility constraints...............................................................................................................
    • 10.6 Signatures and overloading
    • 10.7 Scopes
      • 10.7.1 Name hiding
        • 10.7.1.1 Hiding through nesting
        • 10.7.1.2 Hiding through inheritance....................................................................................................
    • 10.8 Namespace and type names...............................................................................................................
      • 10.8.1 Unqualified name
      • 10.8.2 Fully qualified names
    • 10.9 Automatic memory management
    • 10.10 Execution order
    1. Types
    • 11.1 Value types
      • 11.1.1 The System.ValueType type
      • 11.1.2 Default constructors
      • 11.1.3 Struct types
      • 11.1.4 Simple types
      • 11.1.5 Integral types
      • 11.1.6 Floating point types
      • 11.1.7 The decimal type
      • 11.1.8 The bool type
      • 11.1.9 Enumeration types......................................................................................................................
    • 11.2 Reference types
      • 11.2.1 Class types..................................................................................................................................
      • 11.2.2 The object type
      • 11.2.3 The string type
      • 11.2.4 Interface types
      • 11.2.5 Array types
      • 11.2.6 Delegate types
      • 11.2.7 The null type
    • 11.3 Boxing and unboxing
      • 11.3.1 Boxing conversions
      • 11.3.2 Unboxing conversions................................................................................................................
    • 11.4 Nullable types....................................................................................................................................
      • 11.4.1 Members.....................................................................................................................................
      • 11.4.2 Implemented interfaces
    1. Variables
    • 12.1 Variable categories
      • 12.1.1 Static variables
      • 12.1.2 Instance variables
        • 12.1.2.1 Instance variables in classes
        • 12.1.2.2 Instance variables in structs.................................................................................................
      • 12.1.3 Array elements
      • 12.1.4 Value parameters........................................................................................................................
      • 12.1.5 Reference parameters
      • 12.1.6 Output parameters
      • 12.1.7 Local variables
    • 12.2 Default values
    • 12.3 Definite assignment
      • 12.3.1 Initially assigned variables
      • 12.3.2 Initially unassigned variables
      • 12.3.3 Precise rules for determining definite assignment C# LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION
        • 12.3.3.1 General rules for statements
        • 12.3.3.2 Block statements, checked, and unchecked statements
        • 12.3.3.3 Expression statements
        • 12.3.3.4 Declaration statements
        • 12.3.3.5 If statements
        • 12.3.3.6 Switch statements
        • 12.3.3.7 While statements
        • 12.3.3.8 Do statements
        • 12.3.3.9 For statements
        • 12.3.3.10 Break, continue, and goto statements
        • 12.3.3.11 Throw statements
        • 12.3.3.12 Return statements
        • 12.3.3.13 Try-catch statements
        • 12.3.3.14 Try-finally statements
        • 12.3.3.15 Try-catch-finally statements
        • 12.3.3.16 Foreach statements
        • 12.3.3.17 Using statements
        • 12.3.3.18 Lock statements
        • 12.3.3.19 General rules for simple expressions
        • 12.3.3.20 General rules for expressions with embedded expressions
        • 12.3.3.21 Invocation expressions and object creation expressions
        • 12.3.3.22 Simple assignment expressions
        • 12.3.3.23 && expressions
        • 12.3.3.24 || expressions......................................................................................................................
        • 12.3.3.25! expressions
        • 12.3.3.26 ?: expressions
        • 12.3.3.27 Anonymous method expressions
        • 12.3.3.28 Yield statements
        • 12.3.3.29 ?? expressions....................................................................................................................
    • 12.4 Variable references
    • 12.5 Atomicity of variable references
    1. Conversions............................................................................................................................................
    • 13.1 Implicit conversions
      • 13.1.1 Identity conversion
      • 13.1.2 Implicit numeric conversions
      • 13.1.3 Implicit enumeration conversions
      • 13.1.4 Implicit reference conversions
      • 13.1.5 Boxing conversions
      • 13.1.6 Implicit type parameter conversions
      • 13.1.7 Implicit constant expression conversions...................................................................................
      • 13.1.8 User-defined implicit conversions
    • 13.2 Explicit conversions
      • 13.2.1 Explicit numeric conversions
      • 13.2.2 Explicit enumeration conversions
      • 13.2.3 Explicit reference conversions
      • 13.2.4 Unboxing conversions................................................................................................................
      • 13.2.5 Explicit type parameter conversions
      • 13.2.6 User-defined explicit conversions
    • 13.3 Standard conversions.........................................................................................................................
      • 13.3.1 Standard implicit conversions
      • 13.3.2 Standard explicit conversions
    • 13.4 User-defined conversions
      • 13.4.1 Permitted user-defined conversions
      • 13.4.2 Evaluation of user-defined conversions Table of Contents
      • 13.4.3 User-defined implicit conversions
      • 13.4.4 User-defined explicit conversions
    • 13.5 Anonymous method conversions
    • 13.6 Method group conversions
    • 13.7 Conversions involving nullable types
      • 13.7.1 Null type conversions
      • 13.7.2 Nullable conversions
      • 13.7.3 Lifted conversions
    1. Expressions
    • 14.1 Expression classifications
      • 14.1.1 Values of expressions.................................................................................................................
    • 14.2 Operators
      • 14.2.1 Operator precedence and associativity
      • 14.2.2 Operator overloading
      • 14.2.3 Unary operator overload resolution
      • 14.2.4 Binary operator overload resolution...........................................................................................
      • 14.2.5 Candidate user-defined operators
      • 14.2.6 Numeric promotions...................................................................................................................
        • 14.2.6.1 Unary numeric promotions..................................................................................................
        • 14.2.6.2 Binary numeric promotions
      • 14.2.7 Lifted operators
    • 14.3 Member lookup
      • 14.3.1 Base types
    • 14.4 Function members
      • 14.4.1 Argument lists
      • 14.4.2 Overload resolution
        • 14.4.2.1 Applicable function member
        • 14.4.2.2 Better function member.......................................................................................................
        • 14.4.2.3 Better conversion
      • 14.4.3 Function member invocation......................................................................................................
        • 14.4.3.1 Invocations on boxed instances
    • 14.5 Primary expressions
      • 14.5.1 Literals
      • 14.5.2 Simple names
        • 14.5.2.1 Invariant meaning in blocks
      • 14.5.3 Parenthesized expressions
      • 14.5.4 Member access
        • 14.5.4.1 Identical simple names and type names
      • 14.5.5 Invocation expressions
        • 14.5.5.1 Method invocations
        • 14.5.5.2 Delegate invocations
      • 14.5.6 Element access
        • 14.5.6.1 Array access
        • 14.5.6.2 Indexer access
      • 14.5.7 This access
      • 14.5.8 Base access
      • 14.5.9 Postfix increment and decrement operators
      • 14.5.10 The new operator......................................................................................................................
        • 14.5.10.1 Object creation expressions
        • 14.5.10.2 Array creation expressions
        • 14.5.10.3 Delegate creation expressions
      • 14.5.11 The typeof operator
      • 14.5.12 The sizeof operator...................................................................................................................
      • 14.5.13 The checked and unchecked operators C# LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION
      • 14.5.14 Default value expression
      • 14.5.15 Anonymous methods................................................................................................................
        • 14.5.15.1 Anonymous method signatures
        • 14.5.15.2 Anonymous method blocks
        • 14.5.15.3 Outer variables
        • 14.5.15.4 Anonymous method evaluation
        • 14.5.15.5 Implementation example
    • 14.6 Unary expressions
      • 14.6.1 Unary plus operator
      • 14.6.2 Unary minus operator.................................................................................................................
      • 14.6.3 Logical negation operator
      • 14.6.4 Bitwise complement operator
      • 14.6.5 Prefix increment and decrement operators
      • 14.6.6 Cast expressions
    • 14.7 Arithmetic operators
      • 14.7.1 Multiplication operator...............................................................................................................
      • 14.7.2 Division operator........................................................................................................................
      • 14.7.3 Remainder operator
      • 14.7.4 Addition operator
      • 14.7.5 Subtraction operator
    • 14.8 Shift operators
    • 14.9 Relational and type-testing operators
      • 14.9.1 Integer comparison operators
      • 14.9.2 Floating-point comparison operators
      • 14.9.3 Decimal comparison operators
      • 14.9.4 Boolean equality operators
      • 14.9.5 Enumeration comparison operators............................................................................................
      • 14.9.6 Reference type equality operators
      • 14.9.7 String equality operators
      • 14.9.8 Delegate equality operators
      • 14.9.9 Equality operators and null
      • 14.9.10 is operator
      • 14.9.11 as operator
    • 14.10 Logical operators
      • 14.10.1 Integer logical operators
      • 14.10.2 Enumeration logical operators
      • 14.10.3 Boolean logical operators
      • 14.10.4 The bool? logical operators
    • 14.11 Conditional logical operators
      • 14.11.1 Boolean conditional logical operators
      • 14.11.2 User-defined conditional logical operators
    • 14.12 The null coalescing operator
    • 14.13 Conditional operator
    • 14.14 Assignment operators
      • 14.14.1 Simple assignment
      • 14.14.2 Compound assignment
      • 14.14.3 Event assignment
    • 14.15 Expression
    • 14.16 Constant expressions
    • 14.17 Boolean expressions
    1. Statements
    • 15.1 End points and reachability
    • 15.2 Blocks
      • 15.2.1 Statement lists Table of Contents
    • 15.3 The empty statement
    • 15.4 Labeled statements
    • 15.5 Declaration statements
      • 15.5.1 Local variable declarations
      • 15.5.2 Local constant declarations
    • 15.6 Expression statements
    • 15.7 Selection statements
      • 15.7.1 The if statement
      • 15.7.2 The switch statement
    • 15.8 Iteration statements
      • 15.8.1 The while statement
      • 15.8.2 The do statement
      • 15.8.3 The for statement
      • 15.8.4 The foreach statement
    • 15.9 Jump statements
      • 15.9.1 The break statement
      • 15.9.2 The continue statement
      • 15.9.3 The goto statement
      • 15.9.4 The return statement...................................................................................................................
      • 15.9.5 The throw statement
    • 15.10 The try statement
    • 15.11 The checked and unchecked statements
    • 15.12 The lock statement
    • 15.13 The using statement
    • 15.14 The yield statement
    1. Namespaces
    • 16.1 Compilation units
    • 16.2 Namespace declarations
    • 16.3 Extern alias directives
    • 16.4 Using directives
      • 16.4.1 Using alias directives
      • 16.4.2 Using namespace directives
    • 16.5 Namespace members
    • 16.6 Type declarations
    • 16.7 Qualified alias member
    1. Classes
    • 17.1 Class declarations
      • 17.1.1 Class modifiers
        • 17.1.1.1 Abstract classes
        • 17.1.1.2 Sealed classes
        • 17.1.1.3 Static classes........................................................................................................................
      • 17.1.2 Class base specification..............................................................................................................
        • 17.1.2.1 Base classes
        • 17.1.2.2 Interface implementations
      • 17.1.3 Class body
      • 17.1.4 Partial declarations
    • 17.2 Class members...................................................................................................................................
      • 17.2.1 Inheritance
      • 17.2.2 The new modifier
      • 17.2.3 Access modifiers
      • 17.2.4 Constituent types
      • 17.2.5 Static and instance members
    • 17.2.6 Nested types C# LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION
      • 17.2.6.1 Fully qualified name
      • 17.2.6.2 Declared accessibility..........................................................................................................
      • 17.2.6.3 Hiding..................................................................................................................................
      • 17.2.6.4 this access
      • 17.2.6.5 Access to private and protected members of the containing type
    • 17.2.7 Reserved member names............................................................................................................
      • 17.2.7.1 Member names reserved for properties
      • 17.2.7.2 Member names reserved for events
      • 17.2.7.3 Member names reserved for indexers
      • 17.2.7.4 Member names reserved for finalizers
  • 17.3 Constants
  • 17.4 Fields
    • 17.4.1 Static and instance fields
    • 17.4.2 Readonly fields
      • 17.4.2.1 Using static readonly fields for constants............................................................................
      • 17.4.2.2 Versioning of constants and static readonly fields
    • 17.4.3 Volatile fields
    • 17.4.4 Field initialization
    • 17.4.5 Variable initializers
      • 17.4.5.1 Static field initialization
      • 17.4.5.2 Instance field initialization
  • 17.5 Methods
    • 17.5.1 Method parameters
      • 17.5.1.1 Value parameters
      • 17.5.1.2 Reference parameters
      • 17.5.1.3 Output parameters
      • 17.5.1.4 Parameter arrays
    • 17.5.2 Static and instance methods
    • 17.5.3 Virtual methods
    • 17.5.4 Override methods
    • 17.5.5 Sealed methods
    • 17.5.6 Abstract methods........................................................................................................................
    • 17.5.7 External methods........................................................................................................................
    • 17.5.8 Method body
    • 17.5.9 Method overloading
  • 17.6 Properties...........................................................................................................................................
    • 17.6.1 Static and instance properties
    • 17.6.2 Accessors
    • 17.6.3 Virtual, sealed, override, and abstract accessors
  • 17.7 Events
    • 17.7.1 Field-like events
    • 17.7.2 Event accessors
    • 17.7.3 Static and instance events...........................................................................................................
    • 17.7.4 Virtual, sealed, override, and abstract accessors
  • 17.8 Indexers
    • 17.8.1 Indexer overloading
  • 17.9 Operators
    • 17.9.1 Unary operators
    • 17.9.2 Binary operators
    • 17.9.3 Conversion operators
  • 17.10 Instance constructors
    • 17.10.1 Constructor initializers
    • 17.10.2 Instance variable initializers
    • 17.10.3 Constructor execution
      • 17.10.4 Default constructors Table of Contents
      • 17.10.5 Private constructors
      • 17.10.6 Optional instance constructor parameters
    • 17.11 Static constructors
    • 17.12 Finalizers
    1. Structs
    • 18.1 Struct declarations
      • 18.1.1 Struct modifiers
      • 18.1.2 Struct interfaces..........................................................................................................................
      • 18.1.3 Struct body
    • 18.2 Struct members
    • 18.3 Class and struct differences
      • 18.3.1 Value semantics
      • 18.3.2 Inheritance
      • 18.3.3 Assignment.................................................................................................................................
      • 18.3.4 Default values
      • 18.3.5 Boxing and unboxing
      • 18.3.6 Meaning of this
      • 18.3.7 Field initializers..........................................................................................................................
      • 18.3.8 Constructors
      • 18.3.9 Finalizers
      • 18.3.10 Static constructors
    1. Arrays
    • 19.1 Array types
      • 19.1.1 The System.Array type...............................................................................................................
    • 19.2 Array creation
    • 19.3 Array element access
    • 19.4 Array members
    • 19.5 Array covariance
    • 19.6 Arrays and the generic IList interface
    • 19.7 Array initializers
    1. Interfaces................................................................................................................................................
    • 20.1 Interface declarations
      • 20.1.1 Interface modifiers
      • 20.1.2 Base interfaces
      • 20.1.3 Interface body
    • 20.2 Interface members
      • 20.2.1 Interface methods
      • 20.2.2 Interface properties
      • 20.2.3 Interface events
      • 20.2.4 Interface indexers
      • 20.2.5 Interface member access
    • 20.3 Fully qualified interface member names
    • 20.4 Interface implementations
      • 20.4.1 Explicit interface member implementations
      • 20.4.2 Interface mapping
      • 20.4.3 Interface implementation inheritance
      • 20.4.4 Interface re-implementation
      • 20.4.5 Abstract classes and interfaces
    1. Enums
    • 21.1 Enum declarations
    • 21.2 Enum modifiers
    • 21.3 Enum members C# LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION
    • 21.4 The System.Enum type
    • 21.5 Enum values and operations
    1. Delegates.................................................................................................................................................
    • 22.1 Delegate declarations
    • 22.2 Delegate instantiation
    • 22.3 Delegate invocation
    1. Exceptions
    • 23.1 Causes of exceptions
    • 23.2 The System.Exception class
    • 23.3 How exceptions are handled..............................................................................................................
    • 23.4 Common exception classes
    1. Attributes
    • 24.1 Attribute classes
      • 24.1.1 Attribute usage
      • 24.1.2 Positional and named parameters
      • 24.1.3 Attribute parameter types
    • 24.2 Attribute specification
    • 24.3 Attribute instances
      • 24.3.1 Compilation of an attribute
      • 24.3.2 Run-time retrieval of an attribute instance
    • 24.4 Reserved attributes
      • 24.4.1 The AttributeUsage attribute
      • 24.4.2 The Conditional attribute
        • 24.4.2.1 Conditional methods
        • 24.4.2.2 Conditional attribute classes................................................................................................
      • 24.4.3 The Obsolete attribute
    1. Generics..................................................................................................................................................
    • 25.1 Generic class declarations
      • 25.1.1 Type parameters
      • 25.1.2 The instance type
      • 25.1.3 Members of generic classes
      • 25.1.4 Static fields in generic classes
      • 25.1.5 Static constructors in generic classes
      • 25.1.6 Accessing protected members
      • 25.1.7 Overloading in generic classes
      • 25.1.8 Parameter array methods and type parameters
      • 25.1.9 Overriding and generic classes...................................................................................................
      • 25.1.10 Operators in generic classes
      • 25.1.11 Nested types in generic classes
    • 25.2 Generic struct declarations
    • 25.3 Generic interface declarations
      • 25.3.1 Uniqueness of implemented interfaces
      • 25.3.2 Explicit interface member implementations
    • 25.4 Generic delegate declarations............................................................................................................
    • 25.5 Constructed types
      • 25.5.1 Type arguments
      • 25.5.2 Open and closed types
      • 25.5.3 Base classes and interfaces of a constructed type
      • 25.5.4 Members of a constructed type
      • 25.5.5 Accessibility of a constructed type
      • 25.5.6 Conversions
      • 25.5.7 Using alias directives Table of Contents
    • 25.6 Generic methods
      • 25.6.1 Generic method signatures
      • 25.6.2 Virtual generic methods
      • 25.6.3 Calling generic methods.............................................................................................................
      • 25.6.4 Inference of type arguments
      • 25.6.5 Using a generic method with a delegate.....................................................................................
      • 25.6.6 No generic properties, events, indexers, operators, constructors, or finalizers
    • 25.7 Constraints.........................................................................................................................................
      • 25.7.1 Satisfying constraints
      • 25.7.2 Member lookup on type parameters
      • 25.7.3 Type parameters and boxing
      • 25.7.4 Conversions involving type parameters
    1. Iterators..................................................................................................................................................
    • 26.1 Iterator blocks....................................................................................................................................
      • 26.1.1 Enumerator interfaces
      • 26.1.2 Enumerable interfaces
      • 26.1.3 Yield type
      • 26.1.4 This access
    • 26.2 Enumerator objects
      • 26.2.1 The MoveNext method
      • 26.2.2 The Current property
      • 26.2.3 The Dispose method...................................................................................................................
    • 26.3 Enumerable objects
      • 26.3.1 The GetEnumerator method
    • 26.4 Implementation example
    1. Unsafe code
    • 27.1 Unsafe contexts
    • 27.2 Pointer types
    • 27.3 Fixed and moveable variables
    • 27.4 Pointer conversions
    • 27.5 Pointers in expressions
      • 27.5.1 Pointer indirection
      • 27.5.2 Pointer member access
      • 27.5.3 Pointer element access
      • 27.5.4 The address-of operator..............................................................................................................
      • 27.5.5 Pointer increment and decrement
      • 27.5.6 Pointer arithmetic
      • 27.5.7 Pointer comparison
      • 27.5.8 The sizeof operator.....................................................................................................................
    • 27.6 The fixed statement
    • 27.7 Stack allocation
    • 27.8 Dynamic memory allocation
  • Annex A. Grammar
    • A.1 Lexical grammar.................................................................................................................................
      • A.1.1 Line terminators
      • A.1.2 White space
      • A.1.3 Comments
      • A.1.4 Tokens
      • A.1.5 Unicode escape sequences
      • A.1.6 Identifiers
      • A.1.7 Keywords
      • A.1.8 Literals.........................................................................................................................................
      • A.1.9 Operators and punctuators C# LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION
      • A.1.10 Pre-processing directives...........................................................................................................
    • A.2 Syntactic grammar
      • A.2.1 Basic concepts
      • A.2.2 Types
      • A.2.3 Variables
      • A.2.4 Expressions
      • A.2.5 Statements
      • A.2.6 Classes
      • A.2.7 Structs..........................................................................................................................................
      • A.2.8 Arrays
      • A.2.9 Interfaces
      • A.2.10 Enums
      • A.2.11 Delegates
      • A.2.12 Attributes
      • A.2.13 Generics.....................................................................................................................................
    • A.3 Grammar extensions for unsafe code
  • Annex B. Portability issues
    • B.1 Undefined behavior
    • B.2 Implementation-defined behavior.......................................................................................................
    • B.3 Unspecified behavior
    • B.4 Other Issues
  • Annex C. Naming guidelines
  • Annex D. Standard Library
  • Annex E. Documentation Comments
    • E.1 Introduction.........................................................................................................................................
    • E.2 Recommended tags
      • E.2.1
      • E.2.2
      • E.2.3
      • E.2.4
      • E.2.5
      • E.2.6
      • E.2.7
      • E.2.8
      • E.2.9
      • E.2.10
      • E.2.11 ....................................................................................................................................
      • E.2.12 ..........................................................................................................................................
      • E.2.13
      • E.2.14
      • E.2.15
      • E.2.16
      • E.2.17
    • E.3 Processing the documentation file
      • E.3.1 ID string format
      • E.3.2 ID string examples
    • E.4 An example
      • E.4.1 C# source code.............................................................................................................................
      • E.4.2 Resulting XML
  • Annex F. Bibliography

Table of Contents

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Annex G. Index ............................................................................................................................................ 508

Foreword

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Foreword

This fourth edition cancels and replaces the third edition. Changes from the previous edition were made to align this Standard with ISO/IEC 23270:2006.