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

Surely this is a mistake. It's because some folk don't realise that it is actually strongly typed, and not at all like a var in VB.

Not all corporate coding standards make sense, I once worked for a company who wanted to prefix all class names with the company name. There was a massive rework when the company changed it's name.