How can global function exist in C#?

Question

How can global function exist in C# when everything is defined inside a class? I was reading the documentation of OpCodes.Call at MSDN, and was surprised to see the followin

Answer 1

At the Build 2014 conference it was announced that from Roslyn onwards, you can import static methods from types by the using TypeName; directive, so that instead of having to use System.Math.Min(...) you can do:

using System.Math;
...
var z = Min(x,y);

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Note: by the time of release this became:

using static System.Math;