Re: [Vala] wish for Type Inference working for weak local variables

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

On 08/01/2009 04:36 PM, Łukasz Pankowski wrote:
> Hello
>
> According to the Vala tutorial
>
> "Finally Vala has a mechanism called Type Inference, whereby a local
> variable may be defined using var instead of giving a type, so long as
> it is unambiguous what type is meant."
>
> Type Interface works great for owned variables (for example in
> declaration of variable b below) but not for weak variable (neither
> declaration of c2 nor c3 works).
>
> I would prefer just "weak" (as in declaration of c2) as shorter, but
> maybe "weak var" would be more readable/discoverable?
>
> What do you think about the idea?  Would this be hard to implement?
>
>
> class Foo {}
>
> void main ()
> {
>      // var for short
>      Foo a = new Foo();
>      var b = new Foo();
>
>      // no `weak' for short
>      weak Foo c1 = a;
>      weak c2 = a;               // syntax error
>      weak var c3 = a;           // syntax error
> }
>    

I and Julien proposed that, but juergbi closed it as WONTFIX without 
discussion.
Maybe if more people express their opinion, we could change his mind?

See this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586486