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3716 :: Nim in Action errata

• dom96 (orginal) [2018-04-02T17:06:16+02:00] view original

  Hello guys,

  So my publisher is asking me to update my errata list. Some of you have already reported errata here: https://forums.manning.com/posts/list/41366.page (which is the de-facto place for errata in Nim in Action).

  Before I compile an official errata list, I'd really appreciate any other reports of mistakes in the book. Especially if they haven't been reported already.

  Thanks!

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• GULPF (orginal) [2018-04-02T17:49:00+02:00] view original

  Should deprecated proc/type names be errata'd? There's probably a few for the times module in that case

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• dom96 (orginal) [2018-04-02T17:53:37+02:00] view original

  Sure, report them as well. I will put them in the errata but under a special section.

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• GULPF (orginal) [2018-04-03T11:31:27+02:00] view original

  I looked through chapter 7 for things related to the times module (I think it's the only chapter that uses it):

  p191, p213: TimeInfo => DateTime

  p191: Defines a floating-point time field in the Message type. => Defines a time field in the Message type. (Time isn't floating point)

  p196: $message.time.toSeconds().int => $message.time.toUnix() (Description of that code should also change accordingly)

  p197: fromSeconds(row[1].parseInt)``=> ``fromUnix(row[1].parseBiggestInt) (Description of that code should also change accordingly)

  p205: message.time.getGMTime() => message.time.utc()

  p212: getTime().getGMTime() + 2.hours => getTime().utc + 2.hours

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• mratsim (orginal) [2018-04-14T12:02:36+02:00] view original

  Not an errata but p271 in the macros section, you use dumpTree to get the AST of a type section and then introduce out of the blue a macro that produces the same AST.

  I think you should mention dumpASTGen as a shortcut to get the same result.

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