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I was confused by this, thought they added `fn` to simplify the parser which to my understanding is why many languages moved away from C style function declarat

• lerno 4y ago
  It simplifies the parser somewhat, but C3 restricts the grammar somewhat from C, so it's possible to unambiguously parse it. However, for people writing tools using `fn` is much easier to parse for. Say you want to write a program that dumps all function names in a file. With `fn` that's a simple regex. Without it you have to do more work.
• oconnor663 4y ago
  Simplifying the parser is cool, but what matters most to me is that I can grep/rg for function definitions. This is really hard in languages that don't have some function keyword.