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7680 :: runnableExamples need random - what can I do?

• HJarausch (orginal) [2021-03-22T16:21:22+01:00] view original

  I'd like to put some example under runnableExamples but this fails since they need random which doesn't work at compile time.

  Is there an alternative?

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• Yardanico (orginal) [2021-03-22T16:23:33+01:00] view original

  Not sure I understand your question - runnableExamples compile the examples like normal Nim programs and run them normally, so any Nim code that normally works will work in runnableExamples

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• juancarlospaco (orginal) [2021-03-22T16:24:16+01:00] view original

  import std/random ?.

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• HJarausch (orginal) [2021-03-22T16:28:12+01:00] view original

  Thanks, I forgot to do the import under runnableExamples again.

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• Yardanico (orginal) [2021-03-22T16:31:45+01:00] view original

  Also, please try to not create as much forum threads as you do right now, we're here to offer help in the real-time chat (the Gitter bridge has been down for some time but you can always access the real-time chat from https://discord.gg/nim and #nim on Freenode).

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• HJarausch (orginal) [2021-03-23T18:55:56+01:00] view original

  Running nim doc on my draft of median.nim

  https://play.nim-lang.org/#ix=2TSC

  fails with /usr/lib/nim/pure/random.nim(250, 8) Error: cannot evaluate at compile time: state

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• miran (orginal) [2021-03-23T19:40:25+01:00] view original

  Running nim doc on my draft of median.nim

  Why is it important that runnable examples are inside of static and block? Are you aware they won't be run at runtime, even without static?

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• HJarausch (orginal) [2021-03-23T20:40:12+01:00] view original

  Thanks! Without static: and block: it works indeed.

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