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Comment by alcover

7 days ago

Agreed. It's tempting to make the tersest lang you can but in the end what matters is ease of reading.

For ex. parens-less calls (myfunc 42 "hello") are elegant but don't stand out and - for me - take more time to identify.

Also `fun foo(i:int)` is easier on the parser than C-style `void foo(int i)`

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johnisgood  7 days ago

I prefer lack of "fun" and "fn", to me it is easier to parse C-style. :( This is one of the things (albeit minor) that put me off of C alternatives, I like to keep things as simple as possible, but I understand it has "macro" as well, so might as well have "fn", for the reasons already mentioned.

That said, I will still try C3.

  • lerno  6 days ago

    Also, `fn` is used to make type inference for lambdas syntactically simple. But I would lie if I said I haven’t been considering removing `fn` many times. But there are good reasons for keeping it, despite the break with C.