Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

Re:Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative langu... by mort96 on Sunday April 06, 2025 @06:47PM (#43605639)

I don't understand why you're repeating this. The module is a struct, not an object. That means that in Zig, module lookup and object member lookup are different things. A module is not an object, it is a struct, so looking something up in a module is not looking up a member in an object.

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Re:Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative langu... by throwawaymaths on Monday April 07, 2025 @08:01AM (#43610308)

Please enlighten me, what are objects in zig? As far as i know this is not a defined concept in the language, so I'm assuming you think that structs are objects because struct namespace functions can be called with a syntactic sugar that makes it look like an object in a language that has them.

Do you mean object like object file (to be linked)? Those don't have member functions as far as I know.

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Re:Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative langu... by mort96 on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @05:20AM (#43619750)

Why would I think that structs are objects?

I'm using "object" as it is commonly used; essentially a value. In e.g Java or C or C++, the struct/class is a type, and an instance of the struct/class is an object.

Accessing an object's members is a different operation from looking up a symbol in a namespace. Even in Zig.

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