AARRGGHHHH!!!!!

[Fabio Franco]

Couldn't agree more with you. I would also like to add that even if you have Visual Studio it interrupts reading and interpreting the code. Making it harder to understand for someone that is reading the code for the first time. I blame ReSharper for the fever of using var everywhere. That's the argument of many: "Oh, but Resharper says to use var everywhere". I wish I knew who at ReSharper dev team decided it was a good thing.

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

[Fabio Franco]

Hardly the rule and only applicable for complex names. Now, people use it on method returns and everywhere. I happen to be in a position that I have to read a lot of other people's code and it's a pain to read them when var is used everywhere. On generic types it's even more disrupting.

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

[Fabio Franco]

How often do you have to declare stuff like in C++ std::unordered_map::const_iterator? It's hardly the rule. If you're declaring

Tuple, KeyValuePair>

or something like that, maybe it makes sense. But more often than not, it doesnt.

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

[Fabio Franco]

F*** me too. And Resharper that says lazy mode var is a good thing. :mad:

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

[V 0]

I didn't know :doh:

V.
(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)

[Gerald Gardner]

If I liked typing I'd have been a typist. If I could write code without typing at all I would. BTW: I almost exclusively use "var" and see little wrong with it. I guess I'm an "implied typist"! :laugh: But I also use bigLongVariableNames, because that's where the real value of all those extra characters comes in.

[JimmyRopes]

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

To the lowest common, and therefore the least efficient, method possible.

Is this just speculation or can you cite data to back up your psition?

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

And it's unreadable.

I, personally, find this a lot more readable than the alternative.

XDocument xml = XDocument.Load(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SystemDrive") + @"\manifest.xml");

            var oledbconn = from el in xml.Root.Elements("webservice")
                            where el.Attribute("name").Value == ServiceName
                            select el.Element("OleDbConnection").Value;
            OleDbConnectionString = oledbconn.FirstOrDefault();

You, of course, are entitled to your opinion.

Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs

[9082365]

Exactly. Typing (in all senses) is merely a means to an end. Any author will tell you that they hate typing too. It's not why we or they do what we or they do.

[jschell]

Marc Clifton wrote:

If you don't like typing, why are you a programmer?

Maybe you should educate them on how to be a professional rather than an amateur. Professionals understand that code is part of a process and not the sole point of development. Of course other parts of the process are architecture, design, implementation, testing and maintenance. Not to mention the cost of all of those. Of those steps the part that "reduces" code is only one part. Unless it does, objectively, reduce the cost overall then it isn't in fact professional. At a minimum it must be easier to maintain (thus understand) for the average programmer that works at the company. If it doesn't then it isn't cost effective and therefor it fails.

[Paul Benson]

Fabio Franco wrote:

I blame ReSharper for the fever of using var everywhere.

Indeed! :| That's why I quickly felt pressured into using var. However, as with most things ReSharper, you can turn off the 'hint' in the ReSharper settings if the nagging gets too much and your employer's required coding style doesn't prohibit it. :-D

[Fabio Franco]

Paul Benson wrote:

ou can turn off the 'hint' in the ReSharper settings

Yeah, but by that time, ReSharper already damaged the new devs. :(

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

[pl 2]

:thumbsup: I like typing (slow typing) in C-derived language, it let me think! Programming is all about thinking. At the end of the day, this in incredibly productive.