HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to Programming Humor@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoWhy make it complicated?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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minus-squaremacniel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·15 days agoI see your TypeScript and raise you kotlin: var a: String
minus-squareuranibaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agoWhat’s up with that syntax? Why the use of var here?
minus-squaremacniel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-215 days agoKotlin knows mutable and immutable variables. var indicate mutables and val would indicate immutables (comparable with the final modifier in java and const in JavaScript/TypeScript).
minus-squareuranibaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agoSo a var can start as a string and later be an integer?
minus-squaremacniel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoNo, the type is strict and fixed.
minus-squareguillem@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoI don’t know Kotlin but in other languages “(im)mutable” refers to the value, not the type.
I see your TypeScript and raise you kotlin:
var a: StringWhat’s up with that syntax? Why the use of var here?
Kotlin knows mutable and immutable variables.
varindicate mutables andvalwould indicate immutables (comparable with thefinalmodifier in java andconstin JavaScript/TypeScript).So a var can start as a string and later be an integer?
No, the type is strict and fixed.
I don’t know Kotlin but in other languages “(im)mutable” refers to the value, not the type.