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		tetha 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parse, Don’t Validate – Some C Safety Tips I was curious how this would look in C, and I found this article[1] how this could look in C, apparently with very little overhead. And as I just saw, Python 3.10 also introduced a NewType[2] wrapper. I'll have to see how that feels to handle. 1: https://blog.nelhage.com/2010/10/using-haskells-newtype-in-c... 2: https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/aliases.html#newtyp...

masklinn 5 months ago [–]

Python’s NewType is, confusingly, a very different thing: it’s a compile-time-only subtype of the original, rather than a Haskell-style newtype (which is an entirely separate type from its source).

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