Rust updates

David Piepgrass qwertie256 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 11:10:15 PDT 2012


On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 17:09:27 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> 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.

Ack! You got me. Dynamic languages aren't my thing. But JS being 
dynamically typed, it's not as bad since you don't have to 
specify the return type in addition.


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