@modocache

Compiler and programming language engineer. Contributor to LLVM, Clang, Swift, Move, and Mojo. He/Him.

 New York, USA
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Joined September 2010
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Brian Gesiak@modocache12 Jan 2021
Replying to @modocache @mattjgalloway
One of my hot takes these days is that, if I made my own language, I don't think I would allow identifiers to be shadowed. In C in particular, it seems to enable some very strange semantics.
Brian Gesiak@modocache28 Nov 2020
C is wild. Both GCC and Clang will tell you that you can't assign to 'struct s *' with a value of type 'struct s *'. What the messages don't convey is that the tag 's' refers to a different struct type based on the scopes of 'p' and 'v'. 1/
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