Compiler: type declaration with initial value gets the value's type #13025
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Fixes #13023
This actually slightly changes the compiler's semantic.
Look at this code:
What do you expect it to print?
Well, previously it printed
nil
. Now it prints1
. The type (and value) of a local bariable type declaration with an initial value now is the initial value's type and value.Note: another way to have fixed this would have been to produce a
nil
for that expression, in the interpreter, just like compiled mode. But I think it makes more sense to change the semantics here.For type declarations without an initial value the type is still nil:
the reason is that
b
doesn't really have any valid value at that point.This also should cause any breaking change because: