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3526 :: A few issues

• donallen (orginal) [2018-02-04T14:33:10+01:00] view original

  1. It is not clear where to submit bug reports

  2. The compiler manual says -drelease will compile in release mode. This results in an error:

  nim compile -drelease composite_register.nim
  command line(1, 2) Error: argument for command line option expected: '-d'
  Run

  nim compile -d=release composite_register.nim
  Run

  works

  3. The tutorial says "Conversion between basic types is performed by using the type as a function:". Strings are among the basic types.

  let foo:string = string(bar(x)) # bar(x) produces a cstring
  Run

  results in a compilation error (type mis-match), but

  let foo:string = $(bar(x))
  Run

  does work. At the very least, I think this should be noted in the section on type conversion in the tutorial, but it seems inconsistent to me.

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• Araq (orginal) [2018-02-05T08:36:42+01:00] view original

  https://github.com/nim-lang/nim/issues

  No, it doesn't, it shows the correct syntax -d:release.

  Fair enough, but I doubt string is a "basic type".

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• cdome (orginal) [2018-02-05T11:36:22+01:00] view original

  Useful trick

  1. open main module doc: https://nim-lang.org/docs/system.html
  2. Do "group by type"
  3. Find cstring type

  You will learn most of the stuff cstring can do

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• donallen (orginal) [2018-02-05T14:39:56+01:00] view original

  @Araq

  1. Thank you.
  2. You're right. My aging eyes did not see the ':'.
  3. See the Tutorial: https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut1.html#basic-types . 'String' is among them.

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