Consider the following snippets of C++ code. Which ones do you think a good compiler would warn about?

[[nodiscard]] int f();

f();
(void)f();
(int)f();
int dummy = f();
[[maybe_unused]] int dummy = f();
int _ = f();


I recently heard someone complaining…

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Notes on less-than-obvious aspects of Zig's type system and things that surprised me after diving
deeper into the language.

(N.B. The word “fuck” appears multiple times in this post. I recommend that
the reader temporarily not consider “fuck” as profanity, as it isn’t used that
way here.)

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