Declaration syntax

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On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 01:26:12 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 12:35:18AM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 00:23:34 UTC, deed wrote:
> 		// Variable declaration
> 		tmp1 : real;

If there is one thing that I would bring from Pascal to C would 
be exactly the declaration syntax, that is:

var tmp1: real;

and the like.

I think this also makes the parsing faster (especially if the 
"var" becomes required) and, IIRC, it was cited among the reasons 
for Go declaration syntax.