Is [protected and/or internal] to be avoided?

[Michael S]

Yes, performance tends to be the point people don't like about it. I
would hate to develop without it these days

Does it work in VS 2008 B2?

Of course, I'd appreciate it if you'd redirect people to my book after
it's out

Guess we have to buy a few copies.

Indeed. I thought I'd be avoiding var like the plague, but I'm now keen
on it - only where it makes sense, of course.

I've seen it been abused with mixed datatypes. I would not do like this:

var circum = 3.14 * 2 * 7 + " is the circumfarence of 7";

Mixing doubles, ints and string could be confusing.
I would be explicit and write

string circum = 3.14 * 2 * 7 + " is the circumfarence of 7";

Ditto, ironically...

My task was to make some custom sorting on a list,
that is final containing objects I have no control over.

So I had to Copy/Convert all objects into instances of a class that
I can implement IComparable on, and put them all in a ArrayList.

Making a nested MySorter class , implement ICompare,
and new up my sorter in ArrayList.Sort();

Yuk. Way to Javaish for my taste.
I want Linq!

- Michael Starberg

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Does it work in VS 2008 B2?

The latest version is a sort of "beta for Orcas" - I haven't installed
it against Orcas yet as I'm
not sure how well it works when it's *also* installed for VS 2005.

Guess we have to buy a few copies.



I've seen it been abused with mixed datatypes. I would not do like this:

var circum = 3.14 * 2 * 7 + " is the circumfarence of 7";

Mixing doubles, ints and string could be confusing.
I would be explicit and write

string circum = 3.14 * 2 * 7 + " is the circumfarence of 7";

Absolutely. For plain numeric types, I definitely wouldn't use it.
Consider this:

var x = 2000000000;
var y = 3000000000;

x and y have different types, but that's not at all obvious from the
code.

So I had to Copy/Convert all objects into instances of a class that
I can implement IComparable on, and put them all in a ArrayList.

Making a nested MySorter class , implement ICompare,
and new up my sorter in ArrayList.Sort();

Yuk. Way to Javaish for my taste.
I want Linq!

I don't mind not having LINQ, but being able to use an anonymous
method in sorting is really handy.

Jon