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		pcwalton on May 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘~’ is being removed from Rust Well, I slightly prefer "fun", but the Rust community pretty firmly favors "fn", and they're about the same anyway. As far as I know it came from ML.

xiaq on May 3, 2014 [–]

"fun" is even funnier than "func"!

ML etymology sounds pretty plausible (I didn't know ML uses fn) since I can see there is a strong influence of ML on Rust.

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