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authordef <dennis@felsin9.de>2015-01-17 03:57:38 +0100
committerdef <dennis@felsin9.de>2015-01-17 03:57:38 +0100
commitc45367fc55347db4e4194977f93f2675d2ea546a (patch)
tree5ec65a86687b44c9e469a8984625949b73da2c88
parent1a76d26360fc6e19b73a0d0b03d0c0b059587c6f (diff)
downloadNim-c45367fc55347db4e4194977f93f2675d2ea546a.tar.gz
Clarify documentation about "except clauses"
They're called type conversions. Type casts are done with cast[T](...)
and are not type safe.
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/exceptions.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/exceptions.txt b/doc/manual/exceptions.txt
index f18ab5635..0010d5d09 100644
--- a/doc/manual/exceptions.txt
+++ b/doc/manual/exceptions.txt
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ raised:
 
 Note that ``getCurrentException`` always returns a ``ref Exception``
 type. If a variable of the proper type is needed (in the example
-above, ``IOError``), one must use an explicit cast:
+above, ``IOError``), one must convert it explicitly:
 
 .. code-block:: nim
   try: