bugfixes for the symbol mangling; implements #129

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/manual.txt b/doc/manual.txt
index 34389d7f9..cd6828e5f 100755
--- a/doc/manual.txt
+++ b/doc/manual.txt
@@ -1095,6 +1095,18 @@ dereferencing operations for reference types:
   new(n)

   n.data = 9 

   # no need to write n[].data; in fact n[].data is highly discouraged!

+
+As a syntactical extension ``object`` types can be anonymous if
+declared in a type section via the ``ref object`` or ``ptr object`` notations.
+This feature is useful if an object should only gain reference semantics:
+
+.. code-block:: nimrod

+

+  type

+    Node = ref object

+      le, ri: Node

+      data: int

+
 

 To allocate a new traced object, the built-in procedure ``new`` has to be used.

 To deal with untraced memory, the procedures ``alloc``, ``dealloc`` and