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unwindyesterday at 2:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Agreed, that really stood out as a ... questionable design decision, and felt extremely un-ergonomic which seems to go against the stated goals of the language.


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hyperhelloyesterday at 3:20 PM

Every language is apparently required to make one specific version of these totally arbitrary choices, like whether to call the keyword function, func, fun, fn, or def. Once they do, it’s a foolish inconsistency with everything else. What if the language supported every syntax?