I do not understand how having it on the right should help where type inference is used, as in that case you do not write the type at all! There's absolutely no

I do not understand how having it on the right should help where type inference is used, as in that case you do not write the type at all! There's absolutely no difference in readability. How about we consider the normal case (where you write out the types): int num_entries = .. float div = .. float result = num_entries // div vs num_entries: int = .. div: float = .. result: float = num_entries // div Because they are on the right, they aren't aligned which makes it harder to parse (imo). It gets even worse with more complicated types (lists etc).