Good point. Left me wondering if they considered a different keyword for the using statement. 'wrapping', 'disposing'; ?
Actually 'disposing' sounds good - descriptive of what it does.....

>Because using is used by C++.
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>>Hmm. Sort of agree. But it use as a directive preceded the using statement. IMPORTS in VB is just as descriptive as a directive. Don't know why they plumped for 'using' in C#....
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>>That said, in practice it doesn't worry me at all.