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C# Var : The Religious War

Posted on July 14, 2008

OK.  So I had no clue when I posted previously about the C# var keyword that the use of var is a religious war that's going on right now.  I'm not sure where I stand right now, I'd have to say, "it depends". 

I wouldn't use it in my current work, it would confuse other devs not up on the var usage and would unnecessarily complicate things at this time. 

I'm also not sure due to the fact that people far smarter than me are on both sides of the fence, so right now is a good time to sit back and REALLY think before introducing var into my everyday code.

Comments

Pete

I tend to use it sparingly as well. It's great for building types on-the-fly from a LINQ query, but I've seen stuff like... var myString = "Hello world"; ... and just wonder why.

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