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On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 14:27:48 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 13:08:37 UTC, Francesco 
> Cattoglio wrote:
>> On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 12:56:32 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> That is easy to answer, I doubt they could with their rule of 
>>> not having more than 5 characters per keyword. :)
>> Wait, what? REALLY????? What kind of rule is that.
>> ahahahha... are they stuck to the 70's? :D
>
> Yes really, 
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/glnafbocwjodiwrqwmbv@forum.dlang.org
>
> I just cannot find the Reddit thread any longer.

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. It used to 
be the case that 'loop' could mean 'continue' but people found it 
confusing so it was fixed.