>>>This is the first in what I think will be a series of discussions relating to C#. I am immersed in learning it and know others are as well. Or already have, or are thinking about it. Generics and interfaces are a couple of topics I have in mind after I get a question that has been bugging me for a while out of my system. The answer is probably blindingly obvious to someone who already knows C#.
>>>
>>>Here is my question. When you instantiate an object, you do it like this:
>>>
>>>Circle cir = New Circle();
>>>
>>>Why does the class name occur twice? Why isn't the Circle() on the right sufficient to define the type of object being created?
>>>
>>>i.e. Why isn't it? ---
>>>
>>>cir = New Circle();
>>
>>Just a language design choice. If allowed it would be the equivalent of ' var cir = new Circle(); '
>>Regards,
>>Viv
>
>But why would they make such a design choice? It truly seems redundant to me, just extra typing.
>
>Tautology tt = New Tautology();

Maybe the syntax was just for consistency. In some cases you might want to treat the object as a parent class or asan interface that it implements. e.g:

ParentClass p = new ChildClass();