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We took it from C++ which has a long history with the term; take it up with Bjarne.



Sure he could. And he could take it up with anyone who copies it on a greenfields project too, right? It's a crap name. So what, computing is full of them, assembly language is full of them, C is full of them, C++ is full of them. Sometimes we make a break and don't use one and invent something better. Sometimes...

mov [memory], %register memove(dst, src, size); dst = std::move(src);

eg RAII, SFINAE these are not great names to be copied, I'd be surprised if rust did.




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