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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 23 hours ago

I'm currently prototyping a macro to help reduce boilerplate, as part of a more general library. And I'm doing some wild shit, like defining the fields of a data type from the parameter list of a function.

But then, yeah, what I'm now stuck on is that my generated code references a data type under one name, but it's actually got a different name in the public API. All the wild shit was smooth sailing, but a technicality now fucks me over. 🫠