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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
by 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 agoYou 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