Rust updates

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 18:53:31 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:09:26 +0200
> schrieb Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch>:
>
>> On 07/11/2012 06:45 PM, David Piepgrass wrote:
>> > ...
>> > These benefits (except 3) all exist for "function" as well 
>> > as "fn", but
>> > while many languages use "fun", requiring "function" for all 
>> > functions
>> > is almost unheard of (at least I haven't heard of it), why? 
>> > It's too
>> > damn long! We write functions constantly, we don't want to 
>> > type
>> > "function" constantly.
>> 
>> You could have a look at JavaScript.
>
> ... and Pascal/Delphi, which has no 'void' return, but 
> distinguishes between a 'procedure' and a 'function' with 
> exactly those long keywords. Even better: When you declare a 
> class, you have to use the long keywords in both the class 
> declaration and the method implementation. Then again it also 
> has 'begin' and 'end' instead of { and }. Masochists...

I was a very happy Turbo Pascal and Delphi developer, until I 
switched full time to C and C++.