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Types and the Zig Programming Language

• whitten 3y ago
  One of the notable things I learned from Wirth’s Pascal was the idea of the difference between equality of types by name and by structure. Here, it looks like Zig doesn’t allow for a way to describe the distinction. Would it be better if the types defined by structure automatically were assigned a very ugly name isomorphic to the structure ?
  • hallajs 3y ago
    You can describe these things in zig with @typeInfo, @TypeOf and anytype https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#typeInfo https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#typeInfo https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#TypeOf https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#TypeOf https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Keyword-Reference https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Keyword-Reference