On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 17:09:27 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 07/11/2012 06:45 PM, David Piepgrass wrote:...These benefits (except 3) all exist for "function" as well as "fn", but while many languages use "fun", requiring "function" for all functions is almost unheard of (at least I haven't heard of it), why? It's toodamn long! We write functions constantly, we don't want to type "function" constantly.You could have a look at JavaScript.
... and CoffeeScript as an attempt to fix that.