Graydon Hoare: Batten Down Fix Later

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    Re: the ancient attempt at a ranked-choice syntax vote, I think it had to do with the replacement for next. The keyword to go-to-the-next-iteration-of-a-loop was originally next (taken from Perl of all places) and this was criticized as being too common a word that people prefer to have available as a field or variable name rather than a keyword. So I changed it to cont (sticking with the short-keywords theme of the time) and this was criticized as sounding a bit too much like a rude anatomical term. I may be wrong, we did have a handful of totally-silly syntax debates, but one of the reasons I think it might be that is that I eventually "solved" the problem to nobody's preference by reusing loop; as a statement-on-its-own, and .. if you look in the commit logs from mid 2013, the very first syntax change after I left was breaking the short-keyword limit and adding continue. Hilarious. And fits the pattern!

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    the mods publicly outlined the governance issue, while keeping the moderation issue private (https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671)

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  • ante

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    Have you had a look at Ante? It looks a lot like a Rust 2.0 with better ergonomics. There are a lot of interesting ideas.

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