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It is just symbolic names, like doing abstract mathematics with letters instead of numbers.
Except for C, Java and Go, all the remaining mainstream languages allow for symbolic names in the functions/methods.
I never understood what was the big deal.
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It is just symbolic names, like doing abstract mathematics with letters instead of numbers.
Except for C, Java and Go, all the remaining mainstream languages allow for symbolic names in the functions/methods.
I never understood what was the big deal.