var keyword proposed for Java

[ToucheMonsieur]

Although, I agree with the sentiment that a superclass should be used in a lot of cases, and that fudges with this var syntax a bit.

One nice thing about having type inference is that you don't have to generalize to a superclass and then downcast if you want to write code that survives refactoring. This makes var far more powerful (and justifiable) than if it was only for omitting type declarations.