Topic awaiting preservation: not sure...

i found this little snippet of code somewhere in MSDN:
var x : int;
var s : String;
var s1 : String, s2 : String;
var o;
var obj : Object = new Object();
var name : String;


what are the : used for? looks like some sortof typecasting? i have never seen this before.

Looks like it. Must be some sort of JScript* thing. Never seen it before. Maybe it speeds things up a tiny bit to predeclare the types, but... don't develop a habit of using that code.

*for those who don't know, JScript is Microsoft's word for "JavaScript;" since they make changes to it, they have their own name for the "enhanced" version. It's really just the same thing as JavaScript, plus a bunch of things that only IE and Windows support.

looks like Pascal language to me...

It must be pascal, javascript set's the variable type automatic, and this is not alow inn javascript.
pascal was the best

I'd say that Slime is right, it's some sort of JScript propietary type casting. It's probably something to come about with MS's .NET framework.

It looks like a combo of Visual Basic and javascript



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