Hello, will we ever be able to declare multiple va...

# language-proposals

[Fellter]

Hello, will we ever be able to declare multiple variables in a single statement like in Java?
For example, would we be able to do this:

// assigns variables x, y, z to integer value 5
val x, y, z = 5
// alternatively:
val x, val y, val z = 5

Or optionally, similarly to Python, we could declare them on a single line, but assign a different value to each of them:

// the number of variables and assigned values would have to match (3 -> 3)
val x, y, z = 1, 2, 3

I understand that it might be hard to grasp at a first glance considering Kotlin has name based destructuring, but it could be useful in some scenarios

[ephemient]

with (currently) experimental features - name-based destructuring and collection literals

val [x, y, z] = [1, 2, 3]

[Fellter]

That's actually a neat approach, thanks

[Alejandro Serrano.Mena]

@ephemient in fact, if you want to be more explicit, you could o

[val x, val y, val z] = [1, 2, 3]