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Why make it complicated? (europe.pub)

submitted 10 months ago by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago

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