After upgrading Unity editor from 2017 to 2019 you might get some of these errors when you update your old project and hit play:
…/Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@2.0.1/Scripts/Runtime/TMPro_UGUI_Private.cs(1865,73): error CS1644: Feature `out variable declaration’ cannot be used because it is not part of the C# 4.0 language specification
…/Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@2.0.1/Scripts/Runtime/TMPro_Private.cs(1916,130): error CS1644: Feature `out variable declaration’ cannot be used
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