Funny enough GDScript, the internal scripting language of the Godot engine, is using a similar form for (optional) type declarations. var damage: float = 1

Funny enough GDScript, the internal scripting language of the Godot engine, is using a similar form for (optional) type declarations. var damage: float = 10.5 var damage := 10.5 var dynamic_typed_damage = 10.5 If you use the colon you get a static typing, without it you get dynamic typing. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/scripting/gdscript/static_typing.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/scrip...