Re: Nim Syntax ''Skins''

2018-01-23 Thread allochi
@Libman Thanks for the clarification @dom96 I though that 0.18 is coming first. Anyway, I hope to see you guys in FOSDEM in Brussels, and by then I probably can share some thought, meantime, I'm trying to use Nim on daily basis and get to understand it better. it's amazing how fast I can comple

Re: Nim Syntax ''Skins''

2018-01-23 Thread jlindsay
@dom96, Very interesting! Any hints that you may provide on the timeline for the 1.0 release? I know that there are a lot of people who are waiting until 1.0 hits before seriously looking at Nim and so this is quite a big deal. If it is coming very soon then that could be quite interesting. Is t

Re: Partial casing is foo_bar

2018-01-23 Thread wizzardx
Thanks, interesting alias syntax! Also, there's some nice syntax for aliasing over in the issue tracker over here: [https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/7090](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/7090) Edit: Have also requested that this be added to the Nim Cookbook: [https://github.com/btb

Re: Nim Syntax ''Skins''

2018-01-23 Thread Libman
> This thread scares me as a new Nim user This brainstorming session is long expired. * * * Summarizing Araq's verdict with quotes from above: { * "Skins were part of my original Nim 'vision'." * "I now think syntax skins should be an editor feature, not a compiler feature, so relax."

Re: Nim Syntax ''Skins''

2018-01-23 Thread shashlick
Honestly, I'm not for or against skins one way or another - I see the value and the potential pitfalls as described by various folks. What is more interesting from this thread is the potential ability of Nim to allow developing such skins in so called user-space. If I could write a completely al

Re: Issue with typedesc & type parameters

2018-01-23 Thread boia01
Thanks. I was confusing the `T: typedesc` notation with Scala's context bounds since they share the same syntax.