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 is the latest "how to lay out your braces"/hungarian notation/Camel casing debate. There is no right answer, but there are people who sit at the extremes.

Your friend is just unfortunate they work below one of the extremists.