Use the long reserved word as a variable name in C#

Question

a bit of an unusual one.. but I was wondering if anyone knew how I could declare a reserved word as a variable. I have the following code, but it does not like my use of the long variable name. I know I could rename it, but for instrest sakes I would like to know if this is at all possible.

private string lat;
private string long;

public string Lat 
{ 
    get
    {
        return lat;                
    }
}

public string Long 
{ 
    get
    {
        return long;
    }
}

Answer 1

Yes, you can if you really want to:

private string @long;

The actual name of the variable (as reported by reflection etc) is just long; the @ sign tells the compiler to ignore the fact that it's also a keyword.

I would very strongly advise against this, however.