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by Jare 4989 days ago
I understand, and I can only imagine all the debates about naming, which programmers seem to love.

My point is just that by multiplexing a keyword, you shift the cost from one-time in-head knowledge of two keywords, to having to look at the context every time the keyword appears.

My personal preference is to reduce the cost of reading code above everything else (which is what turned me off the otherwise wonderful to write CoffeeScript, for example).