Re: Communication of the Nim language

2019-04-22 Thread dom96
I like the idea of examples aimed at various use cases: web dev, game dev, scientific dev etc. It would be good to have this on the front page. If someone wants to implement that then you have my blessing. @sirbroadwell thank you for writing this. It's good to spark these kinds of discussions.

Re: type mismath in simple math

2019-04-22 Thread cantanima
I think that this is the best solution, and it just so happens to be consistent other languages (Java and Kotlin come to mind). import math echo 2f^2*2.0 Run You could even do this: import math echo 2f^2*2 Run > However,

Re: type mismath in simple math

2019-04-22 Thread lscrd
To add to _mratsim_ answer, you can also write: import math echo 2.0^2 * 2.0 Run and even: import math echo 2.0^2 * 2 Run In the latter code, the compiler convert 2 to 2.0 as it knows that a float is expected. So, there is

Re: type mismath in simple math

2019-04-22 Thread mratsim
Nim is statically typed, meaning it checked at compile-time that you are not mixing apples and oranges unless you specifically allows that. That is because mixing types (integers and booleans, floats and integers) or quantities (miles and meters) is a big source of bugs in weakly typed languages

Re: jester: Can't access javascript or css files

2019-04-22 Thread stevewilliam007
When I was trying to install the software the script loading failed. I have checked [https://itunessupport.org/blog/cannot-install-itunes-on-windows-7](https://itunessupport.org/blog/cannot-install-itunes-on-windows-7) for the solution of the problem and got to know about it. Please help me to

Re: Communication of the Nim language

2019-04-22 Thread sirbroadwell
Be careful, setting an example with a concrete goal helps to imagine how you can use the language and ease of implementation The HTTP server is a good example to show it Moreover, this does not mean in any way that the language can only do webdev many companies use Crystal for machine learn

Re: Communication of the Nim language

2019-04-22 Thread jrfondren
After reading this thread the other day I spent some hours building the website and learning about jekyll/liquid and preparing some code samples that were at least somewhat varied and that fit into the rather small space the website gives to the code. But when I got to the CSS crafting stage, I