JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference: Usage

[Kevin Rushforth]

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