Nathan Michaels

That's a lot of stuff. Do you think that returning a state in the calling machine is a thing we're going to have in submachines? That seems...not right to me.

My comment on the "Alternatively" approach is that I don't think it adds a lot to what we already have. The impetus for this is to make conditional dispatch simpler...

Alright, I like the substate thing, and adding sugar to the first of the 2 substate proposals is a good approach. I'm not a huge fan of the bit where...

I'm unclear on what you mean by 2 on your list. Are you saying the string in the test and the string in the log needn't match exactly? That seems...

> The whole argument is that somebody confuses packed with C packed and now suddenly we have to change it. But we're not C. We're a different language. I think...

> And the documentation makes things even more confusing by [saying that](https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#extern-struct): I think we're all agreed that the documentation is misleading and confusing, but maybe it shouldn't be. Maybe...