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I'm implementing a little language from a paper and it has this concept of symbols, which I want to implement as a pointer pointing to itself. These symbols are known at compile time, but referenced at runtime, so they could be in some static section of memory or whatever.
How would I create such a symbol?
formal crater
I'm implementing a little language from a paper and it has this concept of symbo...
why a pointer to itself? why not just a pointer to an unused byte or something?
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it greatly simplifies some code elsewhere in my interpreter
formal crater
okay
how do you want to create these symbols? do they have to be generated based on a comptime-known string or something?
or can they just be global variables you define in a file somewhere
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global variables in a file
formal crater
as of 0.14 you can just do const foo = &foo; :)
tho you might need to give it a type? idk
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I'll try that, I should've thought of that heh
what would the type be? 🤔
just *usize?
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lemme try
formal crater
in which case you'd have to do some shenanigans ^^'