Android Question Dim variants?

[Troberg]

I've seen two variants of assigning initial value to variables:

Dim x as int = 1
Dim x = 1 as int

Are these just two ways of doing the same thing, or is there any difference?

 

[klaus]

They are the same.

 

[EnriqueGonzalez]

Being VB an inline programming lenguage, i think the compiler reads the whole line before translating it.

the later is most used for several variables declarations

dim x = 1, z = 2 as int

 

[Troberg]

Ah, I never thought of that option. I guess I'm to stuck in VB, where:

Dim a, b as int

means that a is a variant and b is an int.

I just wanted to ask, to make sure that it didn't do anything that just looked the same, such as:

Dim x = 1 as int

would evaluate as:

x casted to object
1 casted to int
x becoming an int as it was assigned 1

 

[EnriqueGonzalez]

Vb is the same for multi declaration, in your first example both a and b would be declared as int

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/865x40k4.aspx

For the second one, I honestly don't know

 

[Troberg]

VB.Net, yes, but in VB6, a would be a variant.

 

[LucaMs]

I've seen two variants of assigning initial value to variables:

Dim x as int = 1
Dim x = 1 as int

Are these just two ways of doing the same thing, or is there any difference?

If you use the second version, could you have:
dim x = a * 10 + 5 / floor(c).... As Int <---- murderess

If so, it would be like a thriller: you can discover the murderess (type) only in the final

I definitely prefer the first.

 

[Troberg]

Good point. I also use the first, mostly out of habit.