Oh… and would that class had to be static to use that feature?

I cannot express how thrilled I am about this feature. I have been eagerly waiting for this expressiveness to enter the language for years, but never expected I would see the day.

This has the potential of allowing C# to stay nimble and light in its expressiveness. I want to respect their opinions as well, but I thought the good people as represented in the comment above would keep C# held back from such nimbleness and *optional* features (just like var, if you don’t like it, you don’t have to use it).

Paul: WriteLine belongs to the Console class. The expected use of such features should be about just as obvious as that, if you know *anything* about the code base at hand. The static usings will always be declared in the usings typically at the top of the .cs file. And again, once you gain almost any familiarity with a given code base, you will in almost all good usages, be almost just as familiar with the typically few (but powerful few!) static classes being used this way.