Support type alias as syntactic sugar for class

[a-skua]

Support type alias as syntactic sugar for class

[MaxGraey]

You can use ! to bypass linter:

class Point {
  x!: i32;
  y!: i32;
}

or

class Point {
  x: i32 = 0;
  y: i32 = 0;
}

[CountBleck]

That's PEDANTIC. You can safely ignore that.

[a-skua]

@MaxGraey
Thanks for the info!
However, it seems that ! is not currently supported in AS.

PEDANTIC AS906: Unnecessary definite assignment.
    :
 19 │ x!: i32;
    │ ~
    └─ in assembly/index.ts(19,3)

PEDANTIC AS906: Unnecessary definite assignment.
    :
 20 │ y!: i32;
    │ ~
    └─ in assembly/index.ts(20,3)

Therefore, it would be written like this.

class Point {
  x: i32 = 0;
  y: i32 = 0;
}

But what I want to do here is not initializing with zero, but defining a type.
I understand that AS is like TS but is a different language. How closely do you intend to mimic TS syntax?

https://www.assemblyscript.org/compiler.html#host-bindings

Type	Strategy	Description
Object	Copy	If a plain object. That is: Has no constructor or non-public fields.
Object	By reference	If not a plain object. Passed as an opaque reference counted pointer.

This proposal arose from the observation that "no constructor" classes are treated differently than regular classes, prompting the question of whether we could adopt a writing style closer to TS.

I'm now thinking that supporting ! instead of type aliases would also be acceptable.

class Point {
  x!: i32;
  y!: i32;
}

[a-skua]

I see, I misunderstood PEDANTIC as a build failure. It's already supported.
The issue is resolved, so I'll close this. Thank you for your help!