> People to this day laugh at Rasmus choosing the length of function names in PHP decades ago and go does, well, not the same, but let's just say a variant of i

> People to this day laugh at Rasmus choosing the length of function names in PHP decades ago and go does, well, not the same, but let's just say a variant of it. Oh the irony. This is a difference in kind, not degree. PHP has wonky function names because Rasmus didn't know any better. The Go token hash is a private implementation detail; they can change it and only the compiler internals are affected.