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IamIC
IamIC

Reputation: 18259

Is there a meaningful difference between "Double" and "double" in .Net?

As regards best practices, is there a meaningful difference between using:

Double d;

and

double d;

I know best practices are fraught with contradictions, so I know the answers may vary here. I just want to know the pragmatic difference between the two.

Upvotes: 21

Views: 17636

Answers (5)

Adam Lear
Adam Lear

Reputation: 38778

There is no difference. double is just an alias for System.Double in C#.

Note that VB.NET doesn't have the same aliasing (int for System.Int32, double for System.Double, etc), so the aliasing is just applicable to C#, not .NET as a whole.

Upvotes: 24

M.kazem Akhgary
M.kazem Akhgary

Reputation: 19169

a bit difference here.

-You can have class,parameter,var named "Double" but if u want to name it "double" u must type @double.

-You can use Qualifier for Double but not for double. ex

System.Double d; //Correct
System.double d; //incorrect. Compiler error: Identifier expected for "System." .
Double Double,@double;//Correct
double double;//incorrect ,Identifier expected for both doubles

the same thing for classes and parameters....also the same for String-string,Boolean-bool .....

Upvotes: 1

Pedro Abreu
Pedro Abreu

Reputation: 31

Actually... after disassemble I found out that System.Double is a wrapper around double... So double is not a "shortcut" to System.Double.

Upvotes: 2

dkguru
dkguru

Reputation: 152

In C# the Double and double are the same, however Double guranateed to be the same across all .NET platforms, and as far as I remember the double IS the same on all platform, but is not guaranteed as such (despite being it de facto).

Upvotes: 0

LukeH
LukeH

Reputation: 269528

No, there's no difference: double is a C# keyword that's an alias for the System.Double type.

Upvotes: 11

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