IRC Log - 2025-07-25 - ##forth

Channel: ##forth
Total messages: 8
Time range: 00:36:50 - 00:52:11
Most active: xentrac (5), GreaseMonkey (3)
00:36:50 ##forth <GreaseMonkey> Zig uses @ for builtins and also for referencing names of things like variables that would otherwise be invalid (usually due to being keywords) - typically one might do: inline for (@typeInfo(@TypeOf(SomeStruct)).@"struct".fields) |fi| { ... }
00:37:24 ##forth <GreaseMonkey> ...i almost wonder what's more common: having @ being significant or having it not be part of the syntax
00:38:47 ##forth <GreaseMonkey> (context: another counterpoint for 'Forth must be the only language in which "@" is significant...' from about a day ago)
00:50:50 ##forth <xentrac> I haven't tried Zig
00:50:58 ##forth <xentrac> or MSP430 assembly
00:51:15 ##forth <xentrac> @ is used in ARM assembly for comments, as MrMobius alluded to
00:51:53 ##forth <xentrac> also in Perl @ is the sigil for arrays
00:52:11 ##forth <xentrac> for whatever reason it does seem to figure much less prominently in programming language syntax than other punctuation does