That may be the case in the abstract, but I'm not really talking about the abstract, and I'm not really trying to imply anything...except maybe that the Go comp

That may be the case in the abstract, but I'm not really talking about the abstract, and I'm not really trying to imply anything...except maybe that the Go compiler could be written in a friendlier and easier-to-modify way, possibly at some performance cost (which might not be worth it!). That is, is there a particular quality of the Go language you can think of that necessitates only looking at the first two characters of tokens when hashing? Or that requires it to iterate only to `_Var` when generating the keyword map instead of the full length of the list?