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   Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 08:16:00 JST Andrew Kelley

   Lately my Zig code has started to look like this in all my projects

   https://ziglang.org/devlog/2024/#2024-11-04

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     Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 08:15:54 JST Andrew Kelley

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     • Joseph Humfrey

     @joethephish I understand the appeal to such a thing, however, the flexibility of having it also be a namespace is extremely useful, as you can see from the two examples at the end

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 08:15:54 JST clarity flowers

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     • Joseph Humfrey

     @andrewrk @joethephish. I also use this technique constantly. It's similar to how I'll wrap a C library's pointers in my own namespaces. Feels like what I'd actually want is a "namespaced primitive", so the value automatically coerces to u32 without needing an `enumToInt` but can also have a namespace + functions, etc.

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     Joseph Humfrey (joethephish@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 08:16:00 JST Joseph Humfrey

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     @andrewrk Yeah I’ve done the same with enums in C#, it works great! Though it feeeeels slightly hacky?

     I think some languages have that as keyword, a bit like a type alias but not allowing it to be interchangeable with the original. Maybe “distinct”? (I’m sure you know about this as a thing much better than me!)

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     Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 10:57:04 JST Andrew Kelley

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     • segfault

     @segfault https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.13.0/#Non-exhaustive-enum

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     segfault (segfault@class.lunanova.dev)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 10:57:05 JST segfault

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     @andrewrk What does the empty underscore do in the enums do? What does discarding the value do?