> > I might be wrong and I might have misunderstood something of importance, > but it seems to me there is one (and only one) very specific need to use > *var*: ensuring a code copy/pasted from Java works (with as little number > of problems as reasonably possible). >
This is what I understood as well reading the docs, but it looks like `var` is starting to become a full part of the Groovy syntax because it has been documented along with `def` as equal to `def` (but only for variable definitions). > I would like to use `var` as a return type placeholder meaning "this > method returns a variable" > > > What does it mean? Far as I know (but of course, my knowledge is limited), > there's no var-ref type in Java (nor Groovy), and thus no method can return > a variable. Have I missed something of importance again? > You have missed that part in the docs where it says: > If you think of def and var as an alias of Object, you will understand in an instant. So if `var` is an alias for `Object` one should be able to use it as a type placeholder in method return types as well, but that's not the case
