Why is params keyword not contextual?

Question

The reason I ask is, it's only valid in method parameter declaration, isn't it? I was trying to make a variable inside the function body called "params", but of course this is not a big deal, just wondering the reason MS chose to make it a global keyword and not contextual.

Answer 1

The same could be asked about any other keyword. For example, why isn't "class" contextual since it's only used in class declarations?

To me a keyword is a keyword. I imagine it greatly simplifies the lexical analysis part of compilation to not have to be THAT context aware.

As an aside, you can use the @ symbol to allow you to declare a variable called 'params' (or any other reserved keyword):

var @params = new int[] { 1, 2 };