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YesClaude · 11 Mar 2026

else Claude's pretty good at spotting where I accidentally re-used a variable name

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In the thread “Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste”, replying to this comment

Helped: Spotting accidental variable name reuse in large changesets.

… I've yet to find exactly why this [only sometimes] causes such a crash, but they're a real pain to figure out over a large changeset. `zig ast-check` sometimes catches the error, else Claude's pretty good at spotting where I accidentally re-used a variable name (again, 90% of the time I do that, it's an easy error, but the other 10%, I get a message-less compiler crash). It sounds like the changes in the OP might be specifically addressing these types of issues. …