Here's a question I got from a user recently: The foreach loop in C# uses a pattern-based approach to semantic analysis. LINQ in C# also uses a pattern-based approach. Why don't other features, such as the "using" statement, also use a pattern-based approach...

"Ref returns" are the subject of another great question from StackOverflow that I thought I might share with a larger audience. Ever since C# 1.0 you've been able to create an "alias" to a variable by passing a "ref to a variable" to certain methods...

So what does "volatile" mean, anyway? Misinformation abounds on this subject. First off, so as to not bury the lead: in C# the rules have been carefully designed so that every volatile field read and write is also atomic . (Of course the converse does...