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4174 :: openFileStream?

[2018-09-05T21:34:37+02:00]

donallen (orginal) [2018-09-05T21:34:37+02:00] view original

The documentation for the Streams package includes an openFileStream procedure. If I try to use it with the current release of Nim on an up-to-date Arch Linux system, it is undefined. Going back to the documentation and clicking on the 'source' link, I get taken to a page of code that does not include this procedure.

This would appear to be an error.

LeuGim (orginal) [2018-09-05T23:36:05+02:00] view original

Maybe you're compiling for JS, openFileStream is not defined for that backend.

donallen (orginal) [2018-09-06T05:03:49+02:00] view original

No. Compiling to the C backend.

mratsim (orginal) [2018-09-06T10:07:49+02:00] view original

It's devel only.

donallen (orginal) [2018-09-06T13:35:50+02:00] view original

If development-only, then the documentation ought to say that.

dom96 (orginal) [2018-09-06T13:44:00+02:00] view original

The documentation for the Streams package includes an openFileStream procedure.
Which documentation?

donallen (orginal) [2018-09-06T14:23:47+02:00] view original

https://nim-lang.org/docs/streams.html

It's at the bottom of the above page.

Araq (orginal) [2018-09-06T23:19:18+02:00] view original

Apparently the docs were regenerated on 2018-03-05, the 0.18 release was on 2018-03-01 and openFileStream has been added on 2018-03-04. Bad luck. :-/

dom96 (orginal) [2018-09-06T23:36:41+02:00] view original

Bad luck? Why were the docs regenerated on a non-0.18.0 tag?

Araq (orginal) [2018-09-07T08:42:38+02:00] view original

Because I made a mistake.