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Why make it complicated? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Because let x: y is syntactically unambiguous, but you need to know that y names a type in order to correctly parse y x. (Or at least that's the case in C where a(b) may be a variable declaration or a function call depending on what typedefs are in scope.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Can't say I've ever experienced this kind of confusion in Java but that's probably because they intentionally restricted the syntax so there's no ambiguity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I think he means that of you initialize the variables, it becomes simpler but still unambiguous

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