wraith oar
In my code I do lots of castings from integer to float. I previous Zig versions you could do something like this:
const my_float = @intToFloat(f32, my_integer) * 0.5;
In the latest zig version, you need to do:
const my_float = @as(f32, @floatFromInt(my_integer)) * 0.5;
Which seems a bit verbose. I was wondering if there might be a shorter way, maybe in the std library.
Similarly, casting pointers has also become more verbose:
const glDebugMessageControl = @as(c.PFNGLDEBUGMESSAGECONTROLKHRPROC, @ptrCast(c.eglGetProcAddress("glDebugMessageControl"))).?;
Whereas I could do this before:
const glDebugMessageControl = @ptrCast(PFNGLDEBUGMESSAGECONTROLKHRPROC, c.eglGetProcAddress("glDebugMessageControl")).?;
I mean, it's just a bit more verbose but the additional parentheses makes it harder to read, and since it's quite a common thing it becomes a bit annoying.
Cheers!
sly fog