• AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    why would you not want it to? what circumstance, other than an integer not given an explicit type, could it guess wrong?

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        1 year ago

        I almost upvoted but for that last sentence. Code block scopes are most intuitive, and JavaScript has become a better language since it gained them.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah I use it too. But when I have to read somebody’s code or my own from a while ago, I prefer everything labeled at the top. That way I can read the top, jump anywhere, and know what is going on without looking at any other lines.

          It’s a preference that can be argued like dynamic typing.

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            1 year ago

            I guess you could make a rule of declaring your variables at the top of their scope, be it a class, a function or a code block. That would give clarity without needlessly expanding any scopes.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not talking about dynamic vs static though. I’m talking about static typing with or without compiler type inference a la Rust or C++'s auto

        (note that Java making generic parameters optional does not count since that is, in fact, dynamic typing)