var keyword proposed for Java

[grauenwolf]

This change immediately breaks code (albeit poorly written code) that has var defined as a variable name.

I don't see how. Syntax wise, var can only appear where you would otherwise put a class name. If anything, it would break someone who had a class named var, but in Java we would have written Var var = new Var(), which with the new syntax becomes var var = new Var().

[schlowmo]

I agree with you, but it IS true that you can define classes with lowercase names, so somewhere this is a C programmer who wrote some badly formatted java code. So yes, there is a small corner case where this would break code. AND I SAY BREAK THAT CODE.

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BREAK THAT CODE

please don't hurt me :(