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Re:Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API by mike_hearn on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:47AM (#33907849)
The obvious one is putting types on the right, which is a useful syntax for more pervasive type inference.
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Re:Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API by kaba0 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:03AM (#33909380)
I don’t know, in theory replacing types with ‘var’ would work just as well for Java, the advantage (or more like elegance) of ident: type syntax comes from a parser perspective.
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