There are plenty of languages which have contextually sensitive keywords for that exact reason. C# (a closer peer to Java syntactically) has contextual keyword

There are plenty of languages which have contextually sensitive keywords for that exact reason. C# (a closer peer to Java syntactically) has contextual keywords including "var" and "notnull": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/#contextual-keywords https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...