@benleggiero I think what you are looking for is the elusive "just do what I mean" operator. I heard they're adding it to JavaScript.

Kotlin has a lot of that already… No need to be condescending

lol it has convenient constructs within the scope of a consistent grammar

@benleggiero I only meant to be facetious and poke fun at JavaScript, not be condescending to you.

@Shawn

val x = ""

is me saying “I want a public value named x and it’s an empty String”. Kotlin does what I mean, and interprets it as

public val x: String = ""

. Languages like Java don’t have any ‘just do what I mean’ idioms, so it would always have to be

public String x = ""

. What I ask for is possible as a ‘convenient construct within the scope of a consistent grammar’; I even gave examples for how/why