alt Hacker News"Dot" in zig is a placeholder for types that can be unambigously inferred from the surrounding expression.
So ".unknown" is a standin for "SomeEnum.unknown" or "SomeStruct.unknown", depending on what .format is.
"Dot" in zig is a placeholder for types that can be unambigously inferred from the surrounding expression.
So ".unknown" is a standin for "SomeEnum.unknown" or "SomeStruct.unknown", depending on what .format is.
Yeah, after looking it up, it looks like it is basically only used as either field access or an 'infer operator', is that right?
I thought it was used in four completely separate ways:
· normal struct field access
· anonymous struct definition
· field definition within structs (for reasons to do with the parser)
· an extra 'infer operator' for syntactic sugar
But there's no support for anonymous structs/fields, and all structs and fields require a type somewhere for it to be inferred. Which is why this is invalid zig:
(It would need the type to be specified in the called function definition, or inline when assigning)Correct me if I'm wrong here! (And thank you)