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624 :: Case in type definition - Error: invalid indentation

• sanjay (orginal) [2014-11-11T06:09:48+01:00] view original

  Just tried the following code bit from About Nimrod's features:

  type
    Maybe[T] = object
          case hasValue*: bool
          of true:
            value*: T
          of false: nil
  Run

  It works fine. However following code does not compile - logically I wanted to declare the hasValue type and then use case statement.

  type
    Maybe[T] = object
          hasValue*: bool
          case hasValue*:
          of true:
            value*: T
          of false: nil
  Run

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• Araq (orginal) [2014-11-11T09:52:35+01:00] view original

  The discriminator is special enough so that it got its own declaration syntax.

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