[michaelfeathers]

The experience of other language communities is: you'll get used to it. When C# introduced its version of this with the 'var' keyword many felt that code would become less clear but, in general, context gives you what you need. If it doesn't that often means that there are other problems.

I don't know if this is true in your case, but often people who object haven't spent much time working in dynamically typed languages. The readability issue is orthogonal to typing and it tends to be fine.