Personally I just consider that uglier. Also you can parse var i: Int = 1 unambiguously without backtracking, while you have to backtrack on var Int i = 1 (unl

Personally I just consider that uglier. Also you can parse var i: Int = 1 unambiguously without backtracking, while you have to backtrack on var Int i = 1 (unless you enforce some constraint like type names must start with capitals, in which case you may as well just do Int i = 1).