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> Ideally f(x) means the same thing whether evaluated by the compiler or by the generated program.

Absolutely, that’s why I wanted to know what types of things aren’t covered yet, and that’s also why I don’t share your certainty that they won’t be resolved later.

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You'd have to read the discussions the Rust community has about this to get a picture. It's complicated.

From what I understand, there is hope for sqrt but there is no consensus on transcendentals.

No worries, I take your word for the status of these in Rust and I don’t need those features in my own Zig comptime code which as I said in a different comment, has been very predictable over the last few years. Thanks for explaining though!

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