Flow type casting alignment ?

[Alphapage]

Hello,

Do you plan to implement type casting like in Flow ?

http://flowtype.org/blog/2015/02/18/Typecasts.html

It is related to a previous question :#6519

I think Flow implementation respects more javascript typing philosophy by putting type at the end of the expression.

Thanks in advance for your answers.

[Arnavion]

by putting type at the end of the expression.

So does the as operator that Anders told you about in the other issue.

Are you asking to support Flow's : operator in addition to TS's as operator?

[Alphapage]

Personally, I hope so if possible for the reason I describe.
I think it would help to implement common rules and let developers choose what typing feature they prefer to remove less used or depreciate them.

[zpdDG4gta8XKpMCd]

What you are asking is hardly feasible. There is no reason to give 2 syntaxes for the same thing other than to confuse the users. Kind of late to the party.

[zpdDG4gta8XKpMCd]

Would you elaborate on "javascript typing philosophy". Haven't heard of such. Fascinated to read about it.

[Alphapage]

C# philosophy: string str; ((string)str) // typing before expression
Javascript philosophy: let str:string; // typing after expression except for type casting should be after too

[zpdDG4gta8XKpMCd]

FYI, JavaScript doesn't have types to declare and associate with variables.
All you have is a type associated with a value at runtime at a given moment
that can change later which has nothing to do with the pascal style
declarations you referring to.
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C# philosophy: string str; ((string)str) // typing before expression
Javascript philosophy: let str:string; // typing after expression except
for type casting

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[RyanCavanaugh]

See discussion in #296 and my comment here #3203 (comment) in particular