2025-07-25 00:36:50 <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| { ... }
2025-07-25 00:37:24 <GreaseMonkey> ...i almost wonder what's more common: having @ being significant or having it not be part of the syntax
2025-07-25 00:38:47 <GreaseMonkey> (context: another counterpoint for 'Forth must be the only language in which "@" is significant...' from about a day ago)
2025-07-25 00:50:50 <xentrac     > I haven't tried Zig
2025-07-25 00:50:58 <xentrac     > or MSP430 assembly
2025-07-25 00:51:15 <xentrac     > @ is used in ARM assembly for comments, as MrMobius alluded to
2025-07-25 00:51:53 <xentrac     > also in Perl @ is the sigil for arrays
2025-07-25 00:52:11 <xentrac     > for whatever reason it does seem to figure much less prominently in programming language syntax than other punctuation does