title: What is the purpose of removing the accessibility modifier of a method?
body: <p>I'm reading Petzold's free (.PDF) WP7 book, and he says that he always changes "EventArgs e" to "EventArgs args" in event handlers (which makes sense to me, as "e" sometimes conflicts with what I want to name the Exception object); but he also says he removes the accessibility modifiers that are automatically prepended sometimes.</p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering why he does so, and:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1) Should I adopt the same practice
  2) If that's a better way (Petzold is no wet-behind-the-ears greenhorn), why doesn't MS create these methods that way by default?
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