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22 lines
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# Standard type notation (STN)
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This is a system, by which each type in the ++C language can be recognized and is used on a very low level to identify types quickly.
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## Structure layout
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Name | Type | Description
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name | char[] | A null-terminated string, containing the name of the type. This must be a legal ++C identifier (citation needed)
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genTypes | STN[] | An array, containing the same amount of STNs, as type parameters in the specified type
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genConsts | any[] | An array, of undefined length, containing the same amount of tightly-packed constants (in their little-endian byte representation) as const parameters in the specified type
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## In-language representation
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In ++C, there's a special type, called `$_stn`, that is basically a dynamic byte array (`$uint_8[]`), that keeps a byte-wise
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## Metadata representation
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In metadata, types of fields, properties, functions and arguments are represented in this way.
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Also, in metadata, there's a sorted index of all names, followed by an offset pointer to the associated definition (might not be a type)
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