When I was designing the constant value system in Odin, I wanted literals (especially numbers) to “just work”. I was inspired by how both Ada1 and Go2 both handled their constant value systems. But this lead me to a realization that there are two general different models of thought when it comes to values in programming languages. Model-1: Expressions have a type, not all expressions may have a value. Therefore all values must have a type. Model-2: Expressions may have a value, not all ex...
