how c# knows that this is a boolean if we use var in this code, and how c# defined as static lanaguge and not dynamic

Question

Hi, I understand that we can use var in order to avoid stating the types but how in this example if i use the keyword "var" C# knows to turn it into a bool? In the other examples like " int converted = int.Parse(input) " c sharp knows to turn into an int because we have the keyword "int" in the right side.

bool success = (downcased == "donuts");

CodeChallenge.cs

string input = "22";

int converted = int.Parse(input);

bool wheelsAreRound = true;

string downcased = "DoNuTs".ToLower();

bool success = (downcased == "donuts");

double total = 0;

Answer 1 · 2018-11-21T19:01:33Z

November 21, 2018 7:01pm

C# can infer the type from what's on the right side of the assignment, even if it doesn't explicitly have the word 'bool'. If you did:

var success = (downcased == "donuts");

The compiler is smart enough to know that the expression downcased == "donuts" will return a bool, so it knows that when we're defining the variable success it will be of type bool. But it won't let it reassign it to something else that isn't a bool later. It won't let you do success = "hello world".

JavaScript, on the other hand, will let you reassign it to a string. JavaScript doesn't have a compiler, everything is evaluated at runtime, and types are associated with values not with variables.

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