[Julien]

Originally Posted by Gunderak

I still hate the whole object:type thing. Would love it if it was more like Java and C#, object something;

Hello,

By essence, GScript is a scripting language. GScript is more close to JavaScript-like languages, rather than Java or C#.

This type syntax was chose among other language syntaxes, because it is commonly-used to annotate types in ECMAScript-based languages.

For example:

// ActionScript
function foo(a:int):int {...}

// TypeScript
function foo(a: number): number {...}

// UnityScript
function foo(a : int) : int {...}

// Haxe
function foo(a : Int) : Int {...}

So, when converting from GS2 syntax to GS3 syntax, you just have to add type annotations to the original syntax.

//#GS2
function foo(a) {...}

//#GS3
function foo(a : int) : int {...}

With a Java or C# syntax, this will require more semantic changes to the language, like removing the "function" keyword.
Also, you lose the ability to easily import scripts from similar languages (ActionScript, JavaScript, UnityScript, TypeScript...).

// Java or C#.
int foo(int a) {...}