It's not really extra typing. It's just a syntactic convenience considered beneficial by the core team. It doesn't actually break compiler parsing in any way, b

It's not really extra typing. It's just a syntactic convenience considered beneficial by the core team. It doesn't actually break compiler parsing in any way, but it may lead to human confusion in cases where a variable or constant has been named "any". This is probably very rare, and the code will still compile.