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3356 :: JavaScript invocation example Documentation vs. Code?

• HelgeCPH (orginal) [2017-11-22T14:46:20+01:00] view original

  Hej all,

  I am new here and new to the language. In essence I am playing around to get familiar with NIM.

  Currently, I am trying to reproduce the example on JavaScript invocation from the documentation, see JavaScript invocation example

  There it says:

  If the browser supports javascript, you should see the value 10. In JavaScript the echo proc will modify the HTML DOM and append the string.

  When I create and compile the files as described, I do not get the number 10 displayed in the browser (in neither Firefox, Chromium, Safari). However, I get 10 written to the console output. That makes sense to me as the compiled JS function rawEcho writes the number to the log.

  
  function rawEcho() {
                        var buf = "";
        for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; ++i) {
          buf += toJSStr(arguments[i]);
        }
        console.log(buf);
  }
  Run

  I was now wondering if I misunderstand the documentation or if I have to do something more as the documentation continues with:

  Use the dom module for specific DOM querying and modification procs.

  Can anyone please point me to what I could do to make the code behave as described in the documentation? I am running Nim version 0.17.2 on Ubuntu 16.04.

  
  $ nim --version
  Nim Compiler Version 0.17.2 (2017-09-07) [Linux: amd64]
  Copyright (c) 2006-2017 by Andreas Rumpf
  
  git hash: 811fbdafd958443ddac98ad58c77245860b38620
  Run

  Thanks in advance and best regards, Helge

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• Araq (orginal) [2017-11-22T14:57:58+01:00] view original

  This was changed in 0.17.2 and sadly the docs were not updated. :-)

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• HelgeCPH (orginal) [2017-11-22T17:21:27+01:00] view original

  Thank you very much for the information. I just tried it with Nim version 0.17.0 and there the behavior is exactly as described in the documentation.

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