Do you really think something like this: Dictionary<string, Tuple<int, List<string>>> foo = new Dictionary<string, Tuple<int, List<string>>>(); Is prefferable

Do you really think something like this: Dictionary<string, Tuple<int, List<string>>> foo = new Dictionary<string, Tuple<int, List<string>>>(); Is prefferable to: var foo = new Dictionary<string, Tuple<int, List<string>>>(); What do you get from the former that makes the eye-pain worth it? Also, the var keyword is necessary for anonymous types if you want to hold a reference to one. And this is a language feature I sorely miss in Java-land.