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Can the C# ‘var’ keyword be misused?
If the right-hand operand of an assignment is a "new", there's no need to explicitly specify the type of the new variable being created unless the new variable will have to hold items of a more general type than the right-hand operand would indicate. I would consider the code clearer without the...
I've always used var because ReSharper suggested it by default. However, like most people, I only did this when I didn't understand the conotations of ReSharper's suggestion. Now I disable this suggestion in the plug-in, and in actual fact, I prefer to use the fully qualified name on at least...
I agree that in the above example, the use of var is a bit excessive. However, for very long types (such as a dictionary with the key and value both being lists of some nested classes... see below code example), this might actually improve readability (seeing so many details may overwhelm you). Assu
The original question was whether this practice can lead to misuse. Of course it can - almost everytime it is used! In the "real world" (business), most programmers spend their days working amongst reasonably old code with several bolt-on fixes. It becomes increasingly hard to maintain because...
I think this is a nice future, for example look this code:Dictionary > myDic = new Dictionary >();We really need to tell the compiler in this expression what the type of myDic is?This is more concise and clear at...
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