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594 :: Writing to be compatible with "bigbreak"

• mason_mcgill (orginal) [2014-10-19T22:10:44+02:00] view original

  I've been looking at the system module in the "bigbreak" branch on GitHub. It looks like a nice improvement, and I'm trying to write Nim-compatible programs so I can use it as soon as possible.

  As I understand it, Nim (as opposed to Nimrod) will be case-sensitive(-ish). There are ~50 types defined in "system.nim", and roughly half of them start with a lower-case letter (e.g. int32, cstring, void, pointer), while the other half start with an upper-case letter (e.g. Ordinal, RootObj, Exception, RootEffect). Is there a rule that can help me remember which is which?

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• Araq (orginal) [2014-10-19T22:20:29+02:00] view original

  Only a few builtin types (and regions for regionized pointers) start with a lower-case letter. We considered to make every type Uppercased but frankly I just cannot stomach Int, Char, Bool, etc. It annoyed me so much that I decided this is a case of "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" and left them lower cased.

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• mason_mcgill (orginal) [2014-10-19T22:45:47+02:00] view original

  Fair enough; I guess I'll just stick with UpperCase, then fix things the compiler gets mad at : ).

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• Varriount (orginal) [2014-10-20T04:27:48+02:00] view original

  Essentially, most of the 'basic' types are start lowercase. Everything else is uppercase.

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