> why is "continue" spelled "loop" in Rust? "continue" violates Rust's six-character policy, and the original keyword, "cont", was undesirable for obvious reasons. Considering how rarely-used it is (there are eight uses in the whole compiler), the decision was made to simply reuse "loop" and save a keyword.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Erik S <sw...@earthling.net> wrote: > On 4/25/2013 10:53 AM, Patrick Walton wrote: > > I'm not sure we can do the latter. There are too many issues relating to > `unsafe`, `loop`, the `self` argument, etc. to make the LL(1) derivable > from the human-readable grammar in an automated fashion, in my eyes. > > Total bikeshed... but why is "continue" spelled "loop" in Rust? Especially > if it's causing problems? Rust is the only language [1] > <http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages/CntrFlow.html#CntrFlowBrkCntFlo>that > uses "loop" to mean "continue". It seems like an arbitrary incompatibility > with C/C++/Java/JS/etc. > > Erik > > [1] > http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages/CntrFlow.html#CntrFlowBrkCntFlo > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > >
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