I tend to agree, so I would prefer to see them used judiciously. The
write-up by Stuart (referenced below) raised some good points about when
to use them vs when you might not want to.
-- Kevin
Artem Ananiev wrote:
On 2018/03/29 9:36, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
As a prerequisite, we would need to update the minimum boot JDK to JDK
10, which I was going to propose doing anyway -- it seems the right time
now that JDK 10 is out.
I have no objections to then allowing the use of 'var' in new code.
Do any others have any concerns?
My personal experience with "var"s - they are used a lot in Scala, for
example - is they make code very unreadable, especially when working
with collections and streams. The only case when a "var" is suitable
is new object creation:
var object = new SomeType()
In all other cases they are more painful than valuable.
I can say it differently. It's very easy to use "var"s wrong. No
matter what style guides are available, people will often use them in
a way that makes code less readable.
Just my $0.02
Thanks,
Artem
-- Kevin
Nir Lisker wrote:
Hello,
A style guide for usage of 'var' has been published at
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/amber/LVTIstyle.html. Can we start
using
this feature in contributions to OpenJFX?
- Nir
