C# has var now?

Var just makes it harder to read C# code. For example, the difference between...<p>int foo = object.GetSomething() vs var foo = object.GetSomething()<p>The int makes it easy for you to instantly identify that foo is an integer. In the var example, what the fuck is foo? A string? A class? An integer? To find out, you must rely on Visual Studio&#x27;s Intellisense and hover your mouse over foo for a few secons, before Visual Studio will tell you what type foo is. This slows your code reading considerably. And if you don&#x27;t have Visual Studio, then you have to go waste time reading the documentation to figure out what type foo is.<p>Sure, it save your typing time, but, it waste other developer&#x27;s reading time.

I&#x27;m trying my hand at getting back into some C# coding and found that apparently the language now has var. My first thought was why would a professional, statically typed language have var. Checking out the page I linked to in the submission, you can also do this cool if not slightly funky looking thing where it looks like an SQL predicate just reading from an ordinary array.