Paul King created GROOVY-8580: --------------------------------- Summary: CLONE - Support `var` keyword of Java10 (finalise behavior of keyword under @CompileStatic) Key: GROOVY-8580 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8580 Project: Groovy Issue Type: New Feature Reporter: Daniel Sun Assignee: Daniel Sun Fix For: 3.0.0-alpha-2, 2.6.0-alpha-4
This is to provide compatibility with: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286 (Java 10) http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/323 (targeted for Java 11) Java 10 provides var to allow reduced ceremony by avoiding manifest declaration of types for local variables for cases where type inferencing can be supported. Groovy already does this with "def" and has it's own approach for type inferencing within type-checked/compile static code. With this in mind, it seems to make most sense for Groovy to have "var" as an alias for "def" rather than closely mimic only the use cases allowed by Java. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)