[meandmycode]

Yea, I remember the same was said when C# was introducing var, it's a valid concern but in reality it really isn't

[douche]

The only people I've seen complain much about this were converted VB devs, who mistakenly thought it was shorthand for the godawful VB Variant type, with all of its unintuitive type coercion rules that make JavaScript seem sane.