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Re:Austral Programming Language by hardwaregeek on Thursday July 27, 2023 @07:11PM (#36901314)
Probably couldn’t since people could have named functions “fn”. Although idk, one keyword breaking in 50 years is probably excusable
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Re:Austral Programming Language by lelanthran on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:15AM (#36905747)
Well they didn't mind trampling all over symbols that start with 'str', which is bigger breakage in my opinion, so they could have added a function keyword.
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