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Sander Rossel wrote:

Unless you're serious, in which case I don't know how to answer that

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OriginalGriff wrote:

I can see why you need var - you can't use Linq properly without it

Sander Rossel wrote:

Just use an anonymous type a tuple, get the fields you want, use them in just that one function, and be done with it.

Sander Rossel wrote:

Creating a class just to be used in a single function is kind of overkill and clutters your code base.

Sander Rossel wrote:

Your front-end makes it JavaScript so it loses its type anyway.

Sander Rossel wrote:

You may not need them per se, but it makes your code cleaner and easier to read.

Jörgen Andersson wrote:

It could be argued that mixing dataaccess into your functions also clutters the code.

Jörgen Andersson wrote:

Note that anonymous classes are still typed, you just don't know what type. I just prefer to know!

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Jörgen Andersson wrote:

That's an opinion fact.

Sander Rossel wrote:

I've always came to regret it when I needed to change the code a week later.

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Slacker007 wrote:

var is more than accepted when used correctly.