在与同事讨论了c# 3中var关键字的使用后,我想知道人们对通过var适当使用类型推断的看法是什么?

例如,我很懒地在有问题的情况下使用var,例如:-

foreach(var item in someList) { // ... } // Type of 'item' not clear.
var something = someObject.SomeProperty; // Type of 'something' not clear.
var something = someMethod(); // Type of 'something' not clear.

var更合法的用法如下:-

var l = new List<string>(); // Obvious what l will be.
var s = new SomeClass(); // Obvious what s will be.

有趣的是,LINQ似乎是一个灰色区域,例如:-

var results = from r in dataContext.SomeTable
              select r; // Not *entirely clear* what results will be here.

结果很明显,因为它将是一个实现IEnumerable的类型,但它并不完全明显,与var声明一个新对象的方式相同。

当涉及到对象的LINQ时,情况就更糟了,例如:-

var results = from item in someList
              where item != 3
              select item;

这并不比等价的foreach(var item in someList){//…}相当于。

这里有一个关于类型安全的真正问题——例如,如果我们将该查询的结果放在一个接受IEnumerable<int>和IEnumerable<double>的重载方法中,调用者可能会无意中传入错误的类型。

Var确实保持强类型,但问题是,在定义中不立即显示类型是否危险,当重载意味着当你无意中将错误的类型传递给方法时,编译器可能不会发出错误,这种情况会被放大。


当前回答

它当然可以让事情变得更简单,从我昨天写的代码来看:

var content  = new Queue<Pair<Regex, Func<string, bool>>>();
...
foreach (var entry in content) { ... }

如果没有var,这将是非常冗长的。

附录:花点时间学习具有真正类型推断的语言(例如f#),就会发现编译器在正确获取表达式类型方面是多么出色。这当然意味着我倾向于尽可能多地使用var,现在使用显式类型表明变量不是初始化表达式的类型。

其他回答

来自c#团队的高级软件设计工程师Eric Lippert:

为什么引入var关键字?

There are two reasons, one which exists today, one which will crop up in 3.0. The first reason is that this code is incredibly ugly because of all the redundancy: Dictionary<string, List<int>> mylists = new Dictionary<string, List<int>>(); And that's a simple example – I've written worse. Any time you're forced to type exactly the same thing twice, that's a redundancy that we can remove. Much nicer to write var mylists = new Dictionary<string,List<int>>(); and let the compiler figure out what the type is based on the assignment. Second, C# 3.0 introduces anonymous types. Since anonymous types by definition have no names, you need to be able to infer the type of the variable from the initializing expression if its type is anonymous.

我特别强调。整篇文章,c# 3.0仍然是静态类型的,真的!,以及随后的系列相当不错。

这就是var的作用。其他用途可能就没这么好用了。任何与JScript、VBScript或动态类型的比较都是胡扯。再次注意,var是为了使某些其他特性在. net中工作而必需的。

Var,在我看来,在c#中是一个很好的东西。任何这样类型的变量仍然是强类型的,但是它从赋值函数的右边得到它的类型。因为类型信息在右侧可用,在大多数情况下,也必须在左侧输入它是不必要的和过于冗长的。我认为这在不降低类型安全性的情况下显著提高了可读性。

From my perspective, using good naming conventions for variables and methods is more important from a readability perspective than explicit type information. If I need the type information, I can always hover over the variable (in VS) and get it. Generally, though, explicit type information shouldn't be necessary to the reader. For the developer, in VS you still get Intellisense, regardless of how the variable is declared. Having said all of that, there may still be cases where it does make sense to explicitly declare the type -- perhaps you have a method that returns a List<T>, but you want to treat it as an IEnumerable<T> in your method. To ensure that you are using the interface, declaring the variable of the interface type can make this explicit. Or, perhaps, you want to declare a variable without an initial value -- because it immediately gets a value based on some condition. In that case you need the type. If the type information is useful or necessary, go ahead and use it. I feel, though, that typically it isn't necessary and the code is easier to read without it in most cases.

我认为var的使用应该与明智选择的变量名称相结合。

我在foreach语句中使用var没有问题,前提是它不是这样的:

foreach (var c in list) { ... }

如果是这样的话:

foreach (var customer in list) { ... }

... 这样,阅读代码的人就更有可能理解什么是“列表”。如果您可以控制列表变量本身的名称,那就更好了。

这同样适用于其他情况。这是非常无用的:

var x = SaveFoo(foo);

... 但这是有道理的:

var saveSucceeded = SaveFoo(foo);

各有各的,我想。我发现自己这样做,简直是疯了:

var f = (float)3;

我需要一个12步的var程序。我叫Matt,我(ab)使用var。

我想你在你的问题中指出了var的主要问题:“我不需要弄清楚类型”。正如其他人指出的那样,var是有一席之地的,但如果你不知道你正在处理的类型,你很有可能会遇到问题——不是在所有情况下,但那里有足够的气味,所以你应该怀疑。

在大多数情况下,只是输入它更简单——想象一下

var sb = new StringBuilder();

而不是:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

有时它是必需的,例如:匿名类型,比如。

var stuff = new { Name = "Me", Age = 20 };

我个人喜欢使用它,尽管它会降低代码的可读性和可维护性。