Anonymous records feel like one of those features that are obviously useful once you work with JSON-heavy systems, but surprisingly uncommon in statically typed languages
by vatsachak
2 subcomments
An anonymous record type in a language whose type system is an enum LangType in Rust is just HashMap<String, Box<LangType>>
My pet project requires an STLC with anonymous record types and type inference for anonymous records wasn't too bad
by antonvs
1 subcomments
The article missed Go’s anonymous structs:
p := struct {
Name string
Age int
}{
Name: "Alice",
Age: 30,
}
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