Neal Gafter

Champion "utf8 string literals"

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- [x] Proposal added - [ ] Discussed in LDM - [ ] Decision in LDM - [ ] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed Proposal: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/csharp-11.0/utf8-string-literals.md Old...

Champion "Allow Generic Attributes"

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- [x] Proposed in #4936 - [x] [Discussed in LDM](https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/master/meetings/2017/LDM-2017-02-21.md#generic-attributes) - [x] Prototype: [N/A](#) - [x] Implementation: [In Progress](https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/features/generic-attributes) - [ ] Specification: [Not Started](#) See - https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/953 - https://roslyn.codeplex.com/discussions/542178...

Champion "Extension function members"

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- [ ] Proposal added - [ ] Discussed in LDM - [ ] Decision in LDM - [ ] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed See also...

zero- and one-element tuples

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@gafter commented on [Fri Jan 06 2017](https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/16313) To best align positional pattern-matching (which won't restrict the number of values being deconstructed) with tuples, please support zero-element and one-element tuple types...

Champion "Permit IEnumerable<T> as the type of a params parameter"

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- [ ] Proposal added - [ ] Discussed in LDM - [ ] Decision in LDM - [ ] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed See also...

Champion "Covariant Return Types" (VS 16.8, .NET 5)

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- [x] Proposal added: [proposals/csharp-9.0/covariant-returns.md](https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/master/proposals/csharp-9.0/covariant-returns.md) - [ ] Discussed in LDM - [ ] Decision in LDM - [ ] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed (Draft at...

Champion "throw expression" (C# 7.0)

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- [x] [Proposal added](https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/master/proposals/csharp-7.0/throw-expression.md) - [x] Discussed in LDM - [x] Decision in LDM - [x] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed

Champion "expression-bodied everything" (C# 7.0)

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- [ ] Proposal added - [x] Discussed in LDM - [x] Decision in LDM - [x] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed

Champion "discards" (C# 7.0)

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- [ ] Proposal added - [x] Discussed in LDM - [x] Decision in LDM - [x] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed See also https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/master/docs/features/discards.md See also...

Champion "out var" (C# 7.0)

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- [x] [Proposal added](https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/master/proposals/csharp-7.0/out-var.md) - [x] Discussed in LDM - [x] Decision in LDM - [x] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed