From the Common Language Specification: CLS-compliant language compilers must follow the rules of Annex 7 of Technical Report 15 of the Unicode Standard 3.0, which governs the set of characters that can start and be included in identifiers. This standard is available from the Web site of the Unicode Consortium. If you look this up: … Read more
Not all languages have the concept of unsigned ints. For example VB 6 had no concept of unsigned ints which I suspect drove the decision of the designers of VB7/7.1 not to implement as well (it’s implemented now in VB8). To quote: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/12a7a7h3.aspx The CLS was designed to be large enough to include the language … Read more
Changing a method signature Kind: Binary-level Break Languages affected: C# (VB and F# most likely, but untested) API before change public static class Foo { public static void bar(int i); } API after change public static class Foo { public static bool bar(int i); } Sample client code working before change Foo.bar(13);