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Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2026
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I think that's so type inference can work by just omitting the type, instead of having to use "var" or "auto" in front of the variable name
not precisely. Rust has
let mutand Kotlin hasval; ie the member layout and the mutability are treated differently, since those languages have mutability rules.this is a circular argument anyway. the language designers could have figured out a way to do type inference like, eg, Java, but, again, explicitly chose not to.