Local variable inference and anonymous class

[Remi Forax]

I had to persuade myself that the fact that a var with an anonymous class will 'leak' the anonymous type [1] is not an issue.

By example, with
  var foo = new Object() { int i; };
the type of foo is the anonymous class and not Object.

In fact, we can already 'leak' the type of an anonymous class using a lambda that creates an anonymous class,
to create a kind of strawman tuple:
    List<String> list = List.of("hello", "world!");
    Map<Integer, String> map = list.stream()
      .map(s -> new Object() { int key = s.length(); String value = s; })
      .collect(Collectors.toMap(t -> t.key, t -> t.value));
    System.out.println(map);

so i guess 'leaking' the type of an anonymous class is not an issue.

BTW, Eclipse doesn't compile the code above, but this is reported as a bug. 
  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=477894

regards,
Rémi

[1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dlsmith/local-var-inference.html