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Andre_Prellwitz2-Dec-21 12:12
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You’re not wrong, but you’re also not necessarily right. Coding preferences should be agreed upon, codified, and automated to avoid debate. The important thing is that there’s consistency.

Calling a coding practice “lazy” (like the use of ‘var’) is condescending, at best, and smells of arrogance. It’s also associated with narrow-mindedness, and quite frankly, can date you in a bad way. I’m sure the intent was a call for action, but your reasoning and diction could be improved.

Very simply, the guidance on the use of ‘var’ states that it should be used only if the type is repeated or obvious (without IntelliSense) on the right side of the equals sign; this simultaneously makes it easier to spot variable declarations while respecting the intelligence of the reader, who may not really care what the type is up front, especially if the name is well-chosen or the type name is long. A similar logic can be applied, per your preference, for the implicit new() operator, though I tend to see those used mostly on field initializers. Having said that, the Framework Design Guidelines recommends *against* the use of var, except when using ‘new’, ‘as’, or a hard cast, in which cases it is *permissible*.
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