LexParse » end of days http://www.lexparse.com Software Development Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:39:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 C# Dynamic: The Downfall of Western Civilization http://www.lexparse.com/2009/11/11/csharp-dynamic-the-downfall-of-western-civilization/ http://www.lexparse.com/2009/11/11/csharp-dynamic-the-downfall-of-western-civilization/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:14:41 +0000 Mark http://www.lexparse.com/?p=141 I’ve known about the new dynamic keyword in C# 4 for about a year now but really haven’t thought much about it. It’s suppose to be syntactic sugar for dealing with things like COM interop and objects from other DLR languages. This can be done now by using the existing reflection framework/library, but it can be tedious dealing with method name strings and the chain of method calls needed to get to the method invocation. Variables declared as dynamic bypass static type checking.

I came to the realization today this new keyword might well trigger the downfall of western civilization. Not only can this keyword be used for local variables, but also method parameters and return values. If you have experience working in Corporate America, you know that the there are plenty of developers out there who will abuse this keyword to no end. Can you imagine a ginormous, multi-thousand source file code base littered with dynamic!!! Methods that return dynamic!!! Methods that take dynamic!!! Does this not frighten anybody? I’m so scared. Am I alone? Can we stop this?

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