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| author | Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de> | 2019-05-22 11:50:05 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-05-22 11:50:05 +0200 |
| commit | 1e97b420bb10af94450582cbf6774cacc45c92f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 75b10571cf21b7a9f9748ee365e7dd5edb19614d /doc | |
| parent | 57bc8d73b439d974760937c6866d16afc742a25c (diff) | |
| download | Nim-1e97b420bb10af94450582cbf6774cacc45c92f4.tar.gz | |
fixes #7167 (#11300)
* fixes #7167 * spec: distinct types can be ordinal types * bootstrapping issue
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.rst b/doc/manual.rst index 50fbabd9d..53f900ae3 100644 --- a/doc/manual.rst +++ b/doc/manual.rst @@ -827,7 +827,10 @@ Ordinal types have the following characteristics: Integers, bool, characters and enumeration types (and subranges of these types) belong to ordinal types. For reasons of simplicity of implementation -the types ``uint`` and ``uint64`` are not ordinal types. +the types ``uint`` and ``uint64`` are not ordinal types. (This will be changed +in later versions of the language.) + +A distinct type is an ordinal type if its base type is an ordinal type. Pre-defined integer types @@ -1801,6 +1804,8 @@ and its base type. Explicit type conversions from a distinct type to its base type and vice versa are allowed. See also ``distinctBase`` to get the reverse operation. +A distinct type is an ordinal type if its base type is an ordinal type. + Modelling currencies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |