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5820 :: What is the keyword "end" reserved for?

• DeletedUser (orginal) [2020-01-16T22:18:00+01:00] view original

  Searching tkEnd in the compiler code gives only enum definitions, and the word end is shown as a keyword in the manual, where it says unused keywords are reserved for future features of the language. I remember atomic and shared also being unused keywords that got removed eventually, so I'm wondering is end going to be removed too or does it have a planned use? Like Julia's arr[1:end] shorthand perhaps, or a delimiter for something?

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• mratsim (orginal) [2020-01-16T22:50:57+01:00] view original

  Surprisingly begin is not reserved or I would think it's a hidden plot for Pascal/Ada to takeover Nim.

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• Araq (orginal) [2020-01-16T23:08:13+01:00] view original

  It's probably way too late for this but I always had the idea of allowing (but not requiring) explicit end if etc markers:

  proc dasDing(arg: int): string =
    if arg == 0:
      result = "0"
    else:
       result = "not 0"
    end if
  end proc
  Run

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2020-01-17T01:40:23+01:00] view original

  end is used (and required for if) in the Nim Source Code Filters.

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• kcvinu (orginal) [2020-01-17T16:01:15+01:00] view original

  Well, that's a nice syntax. I am already using "end_if, end_proc, end_case, end_for, end_while" as a template but it's quite ugly without syntax color support in vs code.

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