Stefan Glienke

The benefit of type inference is that you don't have to state the obvious. If you put the result of let's say GetCustomers into a variable it can explicitly type that variable from the type that GetCustomers returns, if that is a TList<TCustomer>, a TCustomerList or something else it usually does not matter. It also might make refactoring more stable because if you might change that function to return a more special or a more broad type then there is a high chance that the code will still compile and work.