Feature creep killed C++ for me and for many people. It also killed Perl for us in the same way. So I when I looked up the new features on C# 2.0, the first thing on my mind was feature creep. And sadly I saw it.
I like the way they’ve done gererics. I like the new iterator features. I like the new containers, these are very cool! I like anonymous functions. I suspect that I won’t use it too heavily, but I believe that the feature is needed. In the case of iterators and anonymous functions, I appreciate the syntax. They’ve taken care to keep the syntax intuitive and consistent with the C# look and feel.
But I don’t take to partial classes so well. I see in it a striking resemblance to the #include keyword in C and C++. To my mind it would only help when you need to split up a large class into multiple files. When would you need to do this?
