ziglings/exercises/026_hello2.zig
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//
// Great news! Now we know enough to understand a "real" Hello World
// program in Zig - one that uses the system Standard Out resource...which
// can fail!
//
const std = @import("std");
// Take note that this main() definition now returns "!void" rather
// than just "void". Since there's no specific error type, this means
// that Zig will infer the error type. This is appropriate in the
// case of main(), but can make a function harder (function pointers)
// or even impossible to work with (recursion) in some situations.
//
// You can find more information at:
// https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Inferred-Error-Sets
//
pub fn main() !void {
// We get a Writer for Standard Out so we can print() to it.
const stdout = std.io.getStdOut().writer();
// Unlike std.debug.print(), the Standard Out writer can fail
// with an error. We don't care _what_ the error is, we want
// to be able to pass it up as a return value of main().
//
// We just learned of a single statement which can accomplish this.
stdout.print("Hello world!\n", .{});
}