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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by lawrence to c/[email protected]
 

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[–] SloppyPuppy 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yea, i was really trying to understand… and then I was like yeah fuck this and regex too.

[–] mvirts 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Gotta learn regex... C++ not so much 😹

Fear not, template abuse is not a necessary practice

Edit: wait what is this I thought it was c++ at first. Java? C#? Has an extends keyword

[–] immutabletest 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This is a Typescript type-level computation (which is Turing-complete AFAIK). However this kind of trickery is usually done for fun and to explore how much could be achieved just on the compile step.

[–] mvirts 1 points 11 months ago

Lol thanks that saves me a lot of googling 😹 that makes a lot of sense