[patrec]

I could write a concrete example that will work in zig and fail in common lisp, but maybe this link is enough?

https://ziglang.org/#Order-independent-top-level-declaration...

[creata]

Oh, so is the point that in Zig, functions with comptime parameters are more or less identical to regular functions in that regard?

[dnautics]

Exactly. You can also use non-comptime functions in comptime, if it avoids certain types of stateful behaviour.

[dinglejungle]

An example of this in the Zig math tests, where it tests calling the same function at both comptime and runtime: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/33c4ad7f3a79aad5d7ea481a...

[patrec]

In common-lisp you could do something equivalent, but you'd have to wrap the definitions you want to be able at both compile and and run time in eval-when.