Comments by dzCepheus (Top 1 by date)

It'd be an essentially useless addition, but It'd be interesting to see the 'using' statement overloaded for creating a scope:

using {
// code in a child scope of the method body here
}

But again, it'd be pointless since you get the same thing with just the braces. I agree that it does look a little sparse that way.

One place I use this a lot are in switches:

switch (variable) {
case 1: { // ** - child scope for local variables
// Case 1 code here
break;
}

case 2: {
// etc...
break;
}
}

Bad programming practice, yes, but I use this for quick programs where I'm more interested in getting something done right now than I am in a sustainable architecture.