oh for sure, but I think that's the rarer case for language implementions. Having a consistent structure with alternative keywords in static positions is just easier to develop an AST for. Personally my favorite language doesn't even allow for const values (except by convention) so it's really just a matter of preference

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is it rarer? I think a lot of modern languages go for the first option but pretty much all C style languages use the latter. It's probably a wash for which is more popular I'd think.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I'm talking about quantity not the popularity of a given language. There are certainly a number of popular languages that follow that convention