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[Walter Bright]

"Charles" <noone at nowhere.com> wrote in message 
news:du002j$2pcm$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>I think its short for 'auto' deduction ?
>
> 'var' gets my vote

'auto' goes way back to C and means "allocate on the stack". This also 
implicitly means "destruct at end of scope." In order for type inference to 
work, there has to be a keyword in front of the declaration to let the 
parser know it's a declaration rather than an assignment. Thus, 'auto' now 
means "allocate on the stack" and if the type is missing it also means 
"infer the type." Types can be inferred with other storage classes:

    static x = 3;        // x is int

This follows the 'auto' proposal for C++ as far as I know.

'var' would be a digression into pascalishness (ugh <g>).