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1399 :: Why does 'nim check' have more bugs than 'nim c'

• kirbyfan64sos (orginal) [2015-07-03T17:07:23+02:00] view original

  I had assumed that nim check was pretty much the same thing as nim c, except without the compile part. Evidently, the recent stream of bugs related to nim check proved me wrong.

  My question is: why does nim check have an entirely separate set of bugs from nim c?

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• Araq (orginal) [2015-07-03T19:46:50+02:00] view original

  nim check continues after the first error, nim c does not. Error correction in a compiler is not trivial which easily explains the number of bugs. Usually nim check related bugs would be of low priority but since nimsuggest also needs to be able to continue after an error and even produce reasonable suggestions these bugs are of high priority.

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• kirbyfan64sos (orginal) [2015-07-03T20:21:35+02:00] view original

  @Araq Ah...that makes sense!

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