On 01/13/2010 10:22 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Lutger"<lutger.blijdest...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:hil6gr$2hm...@digitalmars.com...
All ML derived languages do this much more extensively and they even don't
need an auto keyword for it. C# has var and VB.NET has Dim which mean the
same thing. The nice thing with those languages is that if you code in
Visual Studio, you only have to hover above the variabele and the type
pops up. Most IDE's have this btw, including descent, so that takes away
the concern of having to remember the flow of types inferred.
Doesn't "Dim" (without an "As" clause) declare a variant rather than a
compile-time-inferred static type? Or did that change in VB.NET?
What MS did was basically just drop Visual Basic, lot's of rusty coders
lost their job because of it. VB.NET is C# dressed up to look like that
dying dynamic scripting language with a similar name. It is a different
language altogether though, even D is more dynamic than VB.NET.
