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> var was always intended for the case of "type inference from an
> assignment", the way it is used in Java, and imho that is also what people
> coming fom other languages would expect.
>
My perception is that a feature like `var` is useful only when you
cut-and-paste a Java code in a Groovy fil
1. Groovy has been a hybrid dynamic & static language for a long time:
https://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/documentation/core-semantics.html#_static_compilation
1. The @CompileStatic and @TypeChecked annotations can be applied
to whole projects, classes or methods to switch th
