Why are 'out' parameters in .NET a bad idea?

Question

Why are \'out\' parameters in .NET a bad idea?

I was recently asked this, but I had no real answer besides it\'s simply unnecessarily complicating an application. Wh

Answer 1

Out - Parameter are a bad idea in my opinion. They increase the risk of side effects and are hard to debug. The only good solution are function results and here is the problem: For function results, you have to create for every complex result a tuple or a new type. Now it should be fairly easy in c#, with anonymous types and generics.

And by the way: I hate side effects too.