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| author | Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de> | 2021-03-24 22:29:42 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-03-24 22:29:42 +0100 |
| commit | 355985ac89dd13d5b317744b30842155d9321565 (patch) | |
| tree | 921c35b4f7310b41fcd78ac9a44e8983b7c6727b /doc | |
| parent | 5f5a92379fab59db0e7e3da5a9cec2a11be45ed8 (diff) | |
| download | Nim-355985ac89dd13d5b317744b30842155d9321565.tar.gz | |
custom integer literals bugfixes (#17499)
* custom integer literals bugfixes * make nimsuggest compile again
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.rst b/doc/manual.rst index a882eb945..51c434c7b 100644 --- a/doc/manual.rst +++ b/doc/manual.rst @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ this. Another reason is that Nim can thus support `array[char, int]` or type is used for Unicode characters, it can represent any Unicode character. `Rune` is declared in the `unicode module <unicode.html>`_. -A character literal that does not end in ``'`` interpreted as ``'`` if there +A character literal that does not end in ``'`` is interpreted as ``'`` if there is a preceeding backtick token. There must be no whitespace between the preceeding backtick token and the character literal. This special rule ensures that a declaration like ``proc `'customLiteral`(s: string)`` is valid. See also @@ -538,6 +538,9 @@ Numeric literals have the form:: CUSTOM_NUMERIC_LIT = (FLOAT_LIT | DEC_LIT | OCT_LIT | BIN_LIT) '\'' CUSTOM_NUMERIC_SUFFIX + # CUSTOM_NUMERIC_SUFFIX is any Nim identifier that is not + # a pre-defined type suffix. + As can be seen in the productions, numeric literals can contain underscores for readability. Integer and floating-point literals may be given in decimal (no @@ -653,6 +656,7 @@ the case that additional parameters are passed to the callee: var x = 5'u4(123) Custom numeric literals are covered by the grammar rule named `CUSTOM_NUMERIC_LIT`. +A custom numeric literal is a single token. Operators |