Ada conference, Ada and Spark

[Francesco Cattoglio]

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