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Types and the Zig Programming Language

by konsuko on 8/10/23, 10:00 PM with 2 comments

• by whitten on 8/11/23, 4:08 AM

  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 ?