Re:A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of...
by tialaramex on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:47AM
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In AoC it's completely fine to conflate a character and a byte. Neither your daily input nor the provided tests will have anything beyond ASCII.
Which is fine for AoC, good choice, but it means the language needn't get this right, or even provide any help to programmers who need to get it right, in a similar way to how "big" numeric answers in AoC will fit in a 64-bit signed integer, never testing whether your chosen language can do better if the need arises.
Which is fine for AoC, good choice, but it means the language needn't get this right, or even provide any help to programmers who need to get it right, in a similar way to how "big" numeric answers in AoC will fit in a 64-bit signed integer, never testing whether your chosen language can do better if the need arises.