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[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[โ€“] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

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