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• nodrygo (orginal) [2015-01-07T08:51:00+01:00] view original

  Just discovering Nim, just after doing some Rusttests, and I have a little heart preference for Nim so thank and congrats for that big job

  I am an ancien developper, mainly in the Web measure with Python, C# and in some Web back-end with Elixir (Erlang).

  Some few things I would love to see in Nim will be (my wishes for 2015 ;-) ):

  • a REPL (something like https://github.com/murarth/rusti would be a good start)
  • an (distributed?) Actor lib, à la Erlang, with send/receive mailbox
  • a real PATTERN MATCHING as a statement and expression.

  (May be I am wrong but CASE OF seem limited by compile time static expr.)

  I'll love to be able to write something like this stupid an useless example:

  for kind, path in walkDir("."):

  (dir,name,ext) = splitFile(path)

  match (kind,dir,name,exp)

  of (pcDir,dir,_,_):

  echo("this is DIR", " DIR: " , dir)

  of (pcFile,_,name,""):

  echo "this is FILE without EXT: ", dir , " NAME: ", name, "

  of (pcFile,_,name,ext):

  echo "this is the FILE NAME: ", name, ext

  of _ :

  discard "other"

  I'll try to create French slides and exemples for Nim in a near futur. (sorry for my poor english)

  Happy new year for Nim Team

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