Ada conference, Ada and Spark

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 17:25:48 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio 
wrote:
> On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 15:57:32 UTC, Thiez wrote:
>> That is not true, Rust has several keywords that are more than 
>> 5 characters, such as 'continue'. The full list is here: 
>> http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/rust.html#keywords . It 
>> is true that they prefer short keywords over long ones.
> I knew there was no hard-coded limit, but this "try to keep 
> keywords short" sounds really stupid to me. No offence to 
> designers, but I really don't think we should save some spar 
> characters in 2014... I do all my coding on a remote SSH, but 
> still I have plenty of screen space to spare ;)
> My first glance:
> "priv" instead of "private"... bleah! At least it's clear enough
> "mut"... what is this? "mutable", "mutex", perhaps "mute"?
> "impl" could be several different things, too, but I guess it's 
> "implements"
>
> And "continue" being a different keyword some time ago. In the 
> end they changed it. Tons of discussions and stuff; was it 
> worth saving 3 characters, after all?
>
> I hope their standard library is at least WAY more verbose... 
> Otherwise I pity casual Rust programmers :D

Depends on how often and where you write those keywords. mut 
seems to be quite common and even in D I would not like 
'reference' more than 'ref', especially since it is used in 
parameter lists.