OK, so I’m used to : from doing Pascal back in the 80s, but anyway. Read the colon as “is a”, and it makes sense. “counter is a number” “DogClass is a (speci

OK, so I’m used to : from doing Pascal back in the 80s, but anyway. Read the colon as “is a”, and it makes sense. “counter is a number” “DogClass is a (special) MammalClass”. Not seeing a problem there, but again, I have no particular love for curly brace languages. And I would MUCH rather see the type expression spewage AFTER the symbol name - especially given Java 5 generic declarations mixed with Java 8 lambda declarations (yuck!).