Pub on a struct as a file

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Consider:

const WorkoutSchema = @This();

Out of curiosity, I decided to make the declaration public:

pub const WorkoutSchema = @This();

However it seems that there are no differences.

Is this a case similar to top level comments that are allowed inside namespaces other than the implicit struct created by files?

Thanks

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it’s just an alias, that you made public.

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Like @vulpesx mentioned, its just an alias of the files struct type.

Assuming your file is named WorkoutSchema.zig, you have the following:

const WorkoutSchema = @import("WorkoutSchema.zig");
const WorkoutSchemaAlias = @import("WorkoutSchema.zig").WorkoutSchema // or WorkoutSchema.WorkoutSchema

So you just reexport a type alias of the files struct type, you can access by the name you gave the public constant.

There is no difference, because structs do not really have a name, until you assign them to a named value. So changing the local alias of @This() does not change, how the type can be named importing your file.

But I’m not sure what you mean with the comment question.

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Thanks @Sceleton and @vulpesx.

For the comment, ignore it. It was nonsense.

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