Since my last
post, i've played with javac
enought to be able to provide a patch that enables
to let the compiler infers the type of local variables.
Life is a matter of choices
If you have already read the last
Peter Ahé's blog entry
you know that, at least, two proposed syntaxes compete.
The first one suggested by James Gosling and named 'Algol' in the
prototype use...
For an average duke, the big difference between a language like
PHP, Python and Java is that you have to declare the type
of the variables.
In general, it's not a big beal for a statement
like this one
foo=new Foo();
to declare the type and so write it like that
Foo foo=new Foo();
The advantage of declaring the type Foo is that
the compiler won't let you use foo in
cases...
