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| author | singularperturbation <sloanes.k@gmail.com> | 2016-10-31 21:39:17 -0500 |
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| committer | singularperturbation <sloanes.k@gmail.com> | 2016-10-31 22:38:17 -0500 |
| commit | 456b3d32314f36555fecd65f93cf75ba93abddf2 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c727c792a5e5a2606236c4077c1c2cb2e639a19 | |
| parent | d183e4034cc53a01521d283f562c6011b3cb3433 (diff) | |
| download | Nim-456b3d32314f36555fecd65f93cf75ba93abddf2.tar.gz | |
(minor) Doc change for #3130
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/types.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/types.txt b/doc/manual/types.txt index 02426e0d9..c81bc042b 100644 --- a/doc/manual/types.txt +++ b/doc/manual/types.txt @@ -716,7 +716,8 @@ untraced references are *unsafe*. However for certain low-level operations (accessing the hardware) untraced references are unavoidable. Traced references are declared with the **ref** keyword, untraced references -are declared with the **ptr** keyword. +are declared with the **ptr** keyword. In general, a `ptr T` is implicitly +convertible to the `pointer` type. An empty subscript ``[]`` notation can be used to derefer a reference, the ``addr`` procedure returns the address of an item. An address is always |