Peter's Software House

I totally agree that var is evil! What bothers me more is that there is a Resharper warning that recommends replacing types with 'var'! When we upgrade to VS2008 and R# 4.0, I'm going to make sure that we turn that rule off!

Hmm, you haven't explained why you think it's evil though.

Hopefully most people will learn that var is nothing like the untyped declaration of VB scripting fame.

It think that it's pretty clear - only use var when the type of the variable you are declaring is unknown or anonymous (like when you create LINQ queries that return anonymous objects).

I have to disagree with hating "var" - on the face of it I didn't like var... but after having been working on a C# 3.5 project for the last 8 or so months I've come to appreciate it more and more...  I think if a var declaration is confusing it's only because of poor practices i.e. poor naming, or a method body being too large... both are bad code smells in their own right, regardless of whether your using explicit or implicit type declarations... in some ways it's cleaned my code up because it's made me more aware of these smells.

Having the ability to toggle between explicit and implicit in Resharper 4 EAP is nice too - if something is confusing then just right click and change it to an explicit declaration... a half second operation.

My 2ø worth :)