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The method is designated as the entry point of the program. Explicitly declared methods that by convention
could be considered as an entry point candidates are ignored. A warning is reported when that happens. It is
an error to specify `-main:<type>` compiler switch when there are top-level statements.
possible to specify a different entry point via the `-main:<type>` compiler switch.

The entry point method always has one formal parameter, `string[] args`. The execution environment creates and passes a `string[]` argument containing the command-line arguments that were specified when the application was started. The `string[]` argument is never null, but it may have a length of zero if no command-line arguments were specified. The ‘args’ parameter is in scope within top-level statements and is not in scope outside of them. Regular name conflict/shadowing rules apply.

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