C# 3.0: Bittersweet

[MyndFyre]

I'm excited to see that lambda expressions are part of the C# 3.0 syntax - the compiler infers anonymous methods from them.  I think that's pretty cool.  I also like that they're extending the property-based initlialization syntax available to attribute initialization to all classes.

What I don't like: implicit typing.  Strong typing has been a major and important feature of C#, and I think by permitting implicit typing, we're going to be encouraging programmer lazyness.  If I wanted to write:

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var s = "Blah";

I could have been using JScript or JScript.NET.  It looks like we're starting do fall away from code elegance.

I also don't like the extensible classes pattern as another instance of where we might be falling away from elegance or maintainability.

I do like the query design pattern they're implementing.  Programmatic SQL-like code - very nifty!

[Insolence]

I do like the query design pattern they're implementing.  Programmatic SQL-like code - very nifty!

I watched a video on Channel9(?) about that "no fuss" SQL stuff, looked very nifty indeed