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The Hare programming language
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commit 80c20f20976758b3214e0227baa00a8805e769c4
parent 84cd44300015c80cd48d192cc5349cdd0ba994be
Author: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Date:   Tue,  5 Oct 2021 14:28:23 +0200

types: add README

Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>

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diff --git a/types/README b/types/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The types module provides runtime access to the Hare type system. It provides +constants like [[INT_MAX]], which defines the useful range for integer types +(see [[math]] for f32 and f64 limits), as well as types like [[slice_repr]], +which describe the internal structure of data types like slices and str. + +The types module additionally provides support for reflection. A typical program +which needs to make use of reflection will pass a type value to [[reflect]], +like so: + + let info = types::reflect(type(str)); + assert(info.repr is types::builtin::STR); + +Additional helpers like [[unwrap]] are provided to further assist with +reflection-related tasks.