Hey MG :-) 2. There are a lot of reasons to not have a variable declared as final (think about loops). Being forced to use another keyword to "un-final" the variable would break the sense of this whole discussion. And treating all local variables as final would pose a lot of issues too. I don't think that this is the way to go.
3. I'm also fine with "fin" as I more care about the alignment (and therefore "optical consistency") than the actual letters to type :-D. Although it is rather uncommon choice :-D Personally, I'd even go a little farther and deprecate "def name" and "final name" in favour of their java counterparts. I never quite liked these keywords (no offence) - although I know that this would break almost all legacy code. Anyway, the idea to make it more java compatible sound good to me. To sum up you are suggesting that: * def is unchanged * final var/final def = fin/val/let -> changed to work like the java way Cheers, Matti -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html
