On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 19:33:12 UTC, Ice Create Man wrote:
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 23:33:45 UTC, Yuxuan Shui
wrote:
Just come across Kotlin today, and found some interesting
ideas skimming through its tutorial:
[...]
Both those issues predate both Kotlin and Swift. C# has had
both of them for as long as I've been coding in the language.
Nothing new here.
Sure that Optional types and dynamic casts have been there for
ages. But this is the first time I see a compiler does the
unwrapping & casting for you based on static analyses.
And Xinok pointed out we have been using the same technique for
detecting uninitialized variables, so what Kotlin does can be
seen as a small, but clever, extension of this.
