D's auto keyword

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Lutger" <lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:hil6gr$2hmn$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> All ML derived languages do this much more extensively and they even don't 
> need an auto keyword for it. C# has var and VB.NET has Dim which mean the 
> same thing. The nice thing with those languages is that if you code in 
> Visual Studio, you only have to hover above the variabele and the type 
> pops up. Most IDE's have this btw, including descent, so that takes away 
> the concern of having to remember the flow of types inferred.

Doesn't "Dim" (without an "As" clause) declare a variant rather than a 
compile-time-inferred static type? Or did that change in VB.NET?