A useful useless fact about Lua keywords

[Hugo Musso Gualandi <hgualandi@...>]

As of Lua 5.4, there are no two keywords that share the same first and 
last letter. There are some that start with the same two letters, 
(else/elseif, repeat/return) but if we look at the first and last 
letter they are unique. For example, the only keyword that starts with 
"e" and ends with "f" is "elseif".

One application of this useless fact would be if one wants to build a 
perfect hashing function for just Lua keywords. The hash function 
wouldn't have to look at all the characters of the word; just the first 
and last one should be enough.

-- Hugo

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