Rust updates

David Piepgrass qwertie256 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 09:48:32 PDT 2012


On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 16:45:17 UTC, David Piepgrass wrote:
> Anyway I think short vs long is much ado about nothing. No one 
> complains that we have to type "int" instead of "integer", 
> after all. Most languages have only a few keywords, which 
> people quickly learn. As long as all the standard library 
> functions are well-named, I don't care about the language 
> keywords.

Okay, I actually care a lot, just about the meaning of the 
keyword and not about whether it's abbreviated. I think D's use 
of "enum" for "static constant" and "static" for "thread 
singleton" (and three or four other things) is quite unfortunate, 
albeit understandable given the C heritage.


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