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<@U3T6LDWTD> 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

what you’re asking for isn’t a “why don’t they just do X” sort of situation

<@U3T6LDWTD>  I only meant to be facetious and poke fun at JavaScript, not be condescending to you.

<@U74HWEPTP> `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