this question has probably been asked before, but ...

# getting-started

[laht]

this question has probably been asked before, but why can we not write val value: Double = 5d like in Java? For floats we can use f.

[dave08]

See this proposal discussion https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0B9K7EP2/p1517935262000448?thread_ts=1517875866.000056&cid=C0B9K7EP2 in #language-proposals