Getting the name of a variable in C# 6 using nameof

C# 6 makes it easy to retrieve the name of a parameter using the nameof keyword. Here comes a situation where it can come handy.

Consider the following Person class with C# 6:

public class Person
{
	public int Age { get; }
	public string FirstName { get;}
	public string LastName { get; }

	public Person(string firstName, string lastName, int age)
	{
		FirstName = firstName;
		LastName = lastName;
		Age = age;
	}
}

Simple, right? Now let’s say you’d like to add some parameter validation to the constructor:

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