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From: Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net>
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Subject: Re: StringBuilder Difficulties
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:44:39 +0300
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Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:32:16 -0700, /markspace/:
> On 7/4/2011 11:06 PM, super... wrote:
>>
>> public foobar (int a, String b) {
>>   x = a + b.length();
>>   y = 1.3*x;
>
> You go through quite a bit of verbiage to justify not typing int and
> double in front of those last two lines.

Just wanted to point out, Gosu [1] is statically typed language 
(compiled to a JVM bytecode) with type inference, where one could write:

function foobar (a : int, b : String) {
    var x = a + b.length();
    var y = 1.3 * x;

The difference with the previously given example seems one still 
needs variable declaration (using the 'var' keyword).

While 'double' and 'int' are short enough, with Gosu one could just 
write:

   var a = new MyVeryLongClassName<Foo,BarBaz>();

which appears even better than the Java 7 <> (diamond) operator. 
Note Gosu supports explicit variable type declarations, also.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosu_%28programming_language%29

-- 
Stanimir