Redundancy in C#?

Question

Take the following snippet:

List distances = new List();

Was the redundancy intended by the language designers? If so, wh

Answer 1

As others have said: var removes the redundancy, but it has potential negative maintenance consequences. I'd say it also has potential positive maintenance consequences.

Fortunately Eric Lippert writes about it a lot more eloquently than I do: http://csharpindepth.com/ViewNote.aspx?NoteID=63 http://csharpindepth.com/ViewNote.aspx?NoteID=61