Why Bracketed [TYPES] ?

[Danny]

Hi all,
In some of microsofts code examples when they declare a new variable they
put brackets around the type. For example:

Dim sendBytes As [Byte]() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(responseString)
^ ^

Do you know why this is?
Thanks,
Danny

[David Williams]

Not sure "why" in all cases, but the brackets allow you to use reserved
words in your application. For instance:

Public Property [Stop] As Boolean

will not compile if you do not have the brackets. But I think you could see
where it might be nice to have a property (or sub or function) named Stop.

HTH

David

"Danny" <vb.@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:3cf921fa$1@10.1.10.29...
>
> Hi all,
> In some of microsofts code examples when they declare a new variable they
> put brackets around the type. For example:
>
> Dim sendBytes As [Byte]() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(responseString)
> ^ ^
>
> Do you know why this is?
> Thanks,
> Danny