Why would var be a bad thing?

Question

I\'ve been chatting with my colleagues the other day and heard that their coding standard explicitly forbids them to use the var keyword in C#. They had no idea

Answer 1

var q = GetQValue();

is indeed a bad thing. However,

var persistenceManager = ServiceLocator.Resolve();

is perfectly fine to me.

The bottomline is: use descriptive identifier names and you'll get along just fine.

As a sidenote: I wonder how do they deal with anonymous types when not allowed to use var keyword. Or they don't use them altogether?