{"id":7671,"date":"2013-08-14T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T19:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2013-08-14T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T19:32:38","slug":"type-safe-scalars-with-single-field-structs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/type-safe-scalars-with-single-field-structs\/","title":{"rendered":"Type-Safe Scalars With Single-Field Structs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeash.com\/pyblog\/friday-qa-2013-08-02-type-safe-scalars-with-single-field-structs.html\">Mike Ash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mikeash.com\/pyblog\/friday-qa-2013-08-02-type-safe-scalars-with-single-field-structs.html\"><p>An interesting feature of C <code>struct<\/code>s is that structurally-identical <code>struct<\/code>s are still different types. [&#8230;] This fact gives us the tool we need to create new types rather than simply creating new names for existing types.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there&rsquo;s no overhead at runtime.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ash: An interesting feature of C structs is that structurally-identical structs are still different types. [&#8230;] This fact gives us the tool we need to create new types rather than simply creating new names for existing types. And there&rsquo;s no overhead at runtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,71],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-c","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}