Comments by Dave The Brave (Top 9 by date)

See the stackoverflow thread to debunk your myths:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41479/use-of-var-keyword-in-c

sergueis63, I work all the time on such projects. And I prefer the var keyword. Maintenance difficulties due to the var keyword may be a symptom, but not the cause of the problem. When the var keyword is your problem, your code is probably messy in the first place.

"The idea of scanning through a 1000 line function filled with var is abhorrent. Notice the word "scanning""

This is what I mean. You've got other troubles than the var keyword when your functions are 1000 lines long.

Reason for my vote of 1
I completely disagree. The var keyword enhances the readability of code. Programmers should code against abstractions and interfaces anyway, thus a type becomes code-noise/code-smell, especially when coding against concrete classes. The var keyword eliminates this noise when the variable is properly named.

Reason for my vote of 1
I completely disagree. The var keyword enhances the readability of code. Programmers should program against abstractions and interfaces and thus the type becomes code-smell anyway, especially when coding against concrete types. This can be eliminated by the var keyword, if the programmer uses a good name for the variable.