right, so some simplifications or improvements are fine, but it doesn't follow t...

Shish2k · on Feb 28, 2023

> it just makes the body of code a lot uglier

I’d suggest learning a couple more languages - after you’ve learned a few, you get used to it - you don’t even see the code. All I see is assignment, variable, parameter…

(But seriously, the vast majority of imperative languages have syntax which is near-enough the same that it really doesn’t matter - much like two spaces vs four spaces, you can spend days, weeks, months arguing about which is better… or you can flip a coin, pick one, and after 5 minutes of using it you’re used to it, freeing up your brain to worry about more useful things :) )

vasilipupkin · on March 6, 2023

missing the point here, if the goal is to migrate people away from C++ to this new thing, it's easier. less error prone to keep syntax similar. That's why Java was so successful.

Koshkin · on Feb 27, 2023

Copy constructor much?

(Also, I would take var over auto any day, to be honest; but no, they had to override the old useless keyword for some mysterious reason.)

int_19h · on March 1, 2023

The reason is obvious: to avoid adding a new keyword and breaking existing code that might use it as an identifier.

Koshkin · on March 1, 2023

C++ had to add new keywords anyway.

int_19h · on March 1, 2023

It does, but N new keywords are always going to mean less breakage than N+1 new keywords.

On top of that, the best keywords - e.g. in this case "let" or "var" - are also the ones most likely to clash with identifiers in existing code.

MindSpunk · on Feb 28, 2023

Which if you projected the same syntax to 'let' syntax you get:

let time_keeper = TimeKeeper(Timer());

Which is one less character to type.