I need your opinion... (original) (raw)

Patrick Moor patrick at moor.ws
Sat Mar 21 14:01:44 PDT 2009

John Rose wrote:

On Mar 21, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Marek KozieĊ‚ wrote:

Allow final variables and final Fields (except blank final), to not having explicit Type. Yes. Someone should work exactly this (and no more) into a separate proposal, if it hasn't been done already.

use this as a template: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4459053

-- John Alternatives: "? foo" would sort of work since the "?" works, as a wildcard, for some other type uses, but it is way too strange looking. A new declare-and-assign operator would be nice for a wrist- friendly language, but IMO it is too different from existing Java declaration syntaxes. Beyond subjective esthetics, consistency of syntax is important to both mechanical and biological parsers. Meanwhile, "final" variables avoid ambiguities about programmer intention for additional assignments to mutable variables, so "final" works with extra grace for auto-typed variables.

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