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Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age' (benhoyt.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    not precisely. Rust has let mut and Kotlin has val; 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.

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