Hiding an inherited reserved method signature - No warnings if new keyword is not used

[logeshkumars0604]

Type of issue

Other (describe below)

Description

In the example described here, it is stated that the below members of B hides the inherited reserved method signatures, and hence declared with new modifier.

public new int get_P() => 456;

public new void set_P(int value) { ... }

And according to the texts described here and here, a warning is to be issued, if the new modifier is not included in the hiding member declaration during hiding.

However, having the new keyword in the above members causes a warning, and declaring the members without the keyword doesn't cause a warning.

The question is that, if the above members hide the inherited reserved method signatures, why does having the new keyword causes a warning? Need help to understand.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/language-specification/classes

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/csharpstandard/blob/draft-v8/standard/classes.md