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The literal undefined in Zig is represented as undefined in JavaScript. You will only encounter it if you explicitly export undefined.

pub const Undefined = undefined;

import { undefined_value } from './undefined-example-1.zig';

console.log(undefined_value);

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Assigning undefined to a variable would not yield undefined on the JavaScript side.

pub var number: i32 = undefined;

import module from './undefined-example-2.zig';

console.log(module.number);

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As @TypeOf(undefined) is a comptime type, you can only put it into a struct if you make it a comptime field:

pub const NumberAndUnknown = struct {
    number: i32,
    comptime unknown: @TypeOf(undefined) = undefined,
};

import { NumberAndUnknown } from './undefined-example-3.zig';

const struct = new NumberAndUnknown({ number: 1234 });
console.log(struct.valueOf());

{ number: 1234, unknown: undefined }

It's different from void, which is a runtime type.

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