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Why make it complicated? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Ok but, in the second example you typically just put final or const in front of the type to denote immutability. I still don't see the advantage to the first declaration.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    oh for sure, but I think that's the rarer case for language implementions. Having a consistent structure with alternative keywords in static positions is just easier to develop an AST for. Personally my favorite language doesn't even allow for const values (except by convention) so it's really just a matter of preference

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is it rarer? I think a lot of modern languages go for the first option but pretty much all C style languages use the latter. It's probably a wash for which is more popular I'd think.

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