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Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

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155 points samuell | 1 comments | 31 Jul 25 14:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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mihaic ◴[31 Jul 25 16:34 UTC] No.44747304[source]▶
It's become a pet peeve of mine, but for the love of God, if anyone with input in Carbon is scanning this, what can be done to use "func" instead of "fn" as a keyword?

That all-consonant keyword always makes it seem like I'm reading Hungarian notation when reading Rust for instance. An other options I've seen for instance in Pony, "fun", is already an English word with a completely different meaning.

Even the "function" from Javascript seems fine to me.

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flohofwoe ◴[31 Jul 25 16:53 UTC] No.44747538[source]▶
Tbh, I wonder why modern languages still have a function keyword at all, e.g.:

    const add = (a: i32, b: i32): i32 => a + b;
...or any variation of the arrow-function idea...
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1. uncircle ◴[31 Jul 25 17:30 UTC] No.44747952[source]▶
It's hard for a naive parser (one-token lookahead, for example), to tell after parsing `const add = (` if this defines a function or a variable.

A "function" keyword often exists just to help the parser. C3, for example, to simply the parser of its language that's a superset of C, adds a "fn" keyword for this very purpose of disambiguation.