Any reason to write the “private” keyword in C#?

Question

As far as I know, private is the default everywhere in C# (meaning that if I don\'t write public, protected, internal

Answer 1

private adds visual clutter. To those who insist that it makes things explicit, I would ask: Do you do this with mathematics, too? For instance:

var answer = a + b / c;

Do you find that unclear without redundant parentheses around b / c?

The rule in C# is very simple: By default, everything is as close to private as it can be. So if you need something to be more visible than the default, add a modifier. Otherwise, don't add needless keywords to your code.