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Bug 143466

Summary:	Language change: Variable declarations
Product:	javafx	Reporter:	David Strupl <dstrupl>
Component:	Editor	Assignee:	David Strupl <dstrupl>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P1
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	TASK	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	130138

Description David Strupl 2008-08-11 14:04:34 UTC

The keywords "var" and "def" are used for declaring variables everywhere; the keywords "attribute" and "static" are
going away.  Variables declared inside a class are what used to be called attributes; variables defined at script level
are what used to be called statics; variables inside code blocks are local variables.  "Def" can be used wherever "var"
can, and it is an error to subsequently assign a value to a variable defined with "def".  Defs may be bound (which means
they are not truly constant.)  Status: var and def are valid anywhere, no warning yet for using "attribute" instead of
var, warning for using "static".  Static attributes should be turned into top-level vars or defs.

Comment 1 David Strupl 2008-08-19 09:07:03 UTC

The code completion must be updated to suggest proper keywords.

Comment 2 David Strupl 2008-08-19 14:19:28 UTC

*** Issue 144394 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 3 David Strupl 2008-09-08 13:10:52 UTC

After this revision 
http://hg.netbeans.org/javafx/rev/48b4c3b55c2e
we should suggest var and def. The rest will be tracked as bugs.

Comment 4 Alexandr Scherbatiy 2008-09-19 10:06:43 UTC

verified in 2008-09-19_02-01-58.zip