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continue was called loop for some reason How strange! Does anyone know why?
by ravenical 10mo ago
continue was called loop for some reason
How strange! Does anyone know why?
- kuresov 10mo agoI could see it… like “loop back around” or “continue loop”. I think good old “continue” is better and more familiar though :)
- steveklabnik 10mo agoThere was an early rule that Rust keywords should be five characters or less. I would guess it's because of this rule. I believe loop turned into cont to satisfy this rule, and then eventually we relaxed the rule, and it became continue.
- iknowstuff 10mo agoWhoa, do you know who and why came up with that? So strange, making it less readable on purpose?
- steveklabnik 10mo agoIIRC it was just a personal preference of Graydon's back then. I'm also not sure it was intended to live forever, just something to try and nudge things in a particular direction. Terseness doesn't inherently mean less readable. I do think that that rule is probably not one that would be good permanently.
- Defletter 10mo agoProbably for the same reason that most new language these days cannot bring themselves to just use "function" and instead have "fn", "fun", "func", etc. It's a headlong pursuit of conciseness for the sake of conciseness.