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Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by Terretta on Sunday February 24, 2013 @09:55PM (#5277063)
> why the class is named Hash instead of HashMap

Why in golang is a function denoted by func instead of function?

I'd guess it's because programmers prefer fewer keystrokes as long as the term remains sufficiently mnemonic.

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Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language by jlgreco on Monday February 25, 2013 @02:00AM (#5277699)
The name 'func' doesn't collide with anything else though. It is an entirely more reasonable abbreviation.
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