-1 Adding multiple keywords to achieve one result makes a language more difficult to read and to learn. I think there needs to be a very compelling reason to even seriously consider doing so. Unless I've misunderstood, in this case the reason is that someone wants a three character keyword so their variable declarations all line up. I don't consider that compelling. For one thing, it would only line up variables declared using def. String, Integer, Book, List<String> etc would not line up. So what would actually be achieved?
If you really need them to line up, how about introducing whitespace between the two words? Although non-standard, that doesn't require language changes, and will also work for String, Integer, etc. However if this proposal does go ahead, please, please, please don't use let. MG provided a good list of reasons in a separate email. Cheers, Anne. On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 12:24, mojo2012 <meister.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey MG :-) > > 2. There are a lot of reasons to not have a variable declared as final > (think about loops). Being forced to use another keyword to "un-final" the > variable would break the sense of this whole discussion. And treating all > local variables as final would pose a lot of issues too. I don't think that > this is the way to go. > > 3. I'm also fine with "fin" as I more care about the alignment (and > therefore "optical consistency") than the actual letters to type :-D. > Although it is rather uncommon choice :-D > Personally, I'd even go a little farther and deprecate "def name" and > "final > name" in favour of their java counterparts. I never quite liked these > keywords (no offence) - although I know that this would break almost all > legacy code. > > Anyway, the idea to make it more java compatible sound good to me. To sum > up > you are suggesting that: > * def is unchanged > * final var/final def = fin/val/let -> changed to work like the java way > > Cheers, > Matti > > > > -- > Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html > -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 2773 Cheltenham Vic 3192 Phone: (03) 9585 6788 Fax: (03) 9585 1086 Web: https://www.coherentsoftware.com.au/ Email: i...@coherentsoftware.com.au
