Re: [Vala] Variable declaration.

["Alexandre Moreira" <alexandream gmail com>]

On 3/11/07, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> On Son, 2007-03-11 at 12:43 -0300, Alexandre Moreira wrote:
> > Hey there, everyone.
> >
> > Can I use type names (class names, actually) while declaring variables
> > or only the "var" keyword ?
>
> Yes, you can use type names.

Oh, Great!

> > If I can use the type names, what is the value of having the var
> > keyword ? Anything specific needs it ? Just asking because I think it
> > would be a pain in the neck to write some sort of code completion with
> > variables defined with "var" lots of checking to do to find out its
> > type.
>
> There is no specific need currently, it just eases writing code
> sometimes quite a bit. I wouldn't recommend to always use var as the
> readability might suffer but statements like this
>         HashMap<string,string> map = new HashMap<string,string> ();
> are just nicer to write like that
>         var map = new HashMap<string,string> ();
>
> It doesn't make sense, in my opinion, to use it for basic types like
>         var b = false;
>
> It's planned to provide API in libvala that will make it easy to write
> code completion support.

Well, thats great. I still think it would be wiser to drop var and
stick with the type names so stuff like ctags (used by a great deal of
Gvim/Emacs programmers out there) would work seamlessly with Vala, but
it is your call :)

Regards,
Alexandre Moreira.

> Jürg