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I could write a concrete example that will work in zig and fail in common lisp, but maybe this link is enough? https://ziglang.org/#Order-independent-top-level

• creata 6y ago
  Oh, so is the point that in Zig, functions with comptime parameters are more or less identical to regular functions in that regard?
  • dnautics 6y ago
    Exactly. You can also use non-comptime functions in comptime, if it avoids certain types of stateful behaviour.
    • dinglejungle 6y ago
      An example of this in the Zig math tests, where it tests calling the same function at both comptime and runtime: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/33c4ad7f3a79aad5d7ea481ac98b42dc9f469076/lib/std/math.zig#L517-L527 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/33c4ad7f3a79aad5d7ea481a...
      • patrec 6y ago
        In common-lisp you could do something equivalent, but you'd have to wrap the definitions you want to be able at both compile and and run time in eval-when.