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Why make it complicated? (europe.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Can't say I've ever experienced this kind of confusion in Java but that's probably because they intentionally restricted the syntax so there's no ambiguity.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think he means that of you initialize the variables, it becomes simpler but still unambiguous