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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
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Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It's a shame that in Java not all references are implicitly final and 
> only real variables get marked with "var" instead - that would serve the 
> same purpose with less effort and less visual clutter.

It seems like your general coding style differs from mine.  The
percentage of re-assigned variables versus those assigned only
once is large enough, that a "var" keyword would cause more
clutter than putting "final" on each other variable.


I'd favor a different change:  let final variables optionally
have their type inferred:
  final myList = new ArrayList<String>();
Afterall, it is just a handle for some previously obtained value.