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		nickik on Nov 29, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla Is Designing a New Programming Language La... int i = 0 not code because modern compilers don't need to know about int at first. The compiler wants to now that you creat a variable the type is not importend at that moment. Thats why most new languages like go or scala have the type after the inizalisation.

masklinn on Nov 29, 2010 [–]

> int i = 0 not code because modern compilers don't need to know about int at first.

Where "modern" means "any non-utterly-stupid compiler built in the last 40 years or so".

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