Merge pull request #2936 from alexamy/alexamy-patch-1

Tutorial Part I update

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/tut1.txt b/doc/tut1.txt
index 1fa495054..500480cf0 100644
--- a/doc/tut1.txt
+++ b/doc/tut1.txt
@@ -757,16 +757,25 @@ However, this cannot be done for mutually recursive procedures:
   # forward declaration:
   proc even(n: int): bool
 
-  proc odd(n: int): bool =
+proc even(n: int): bool
+
+proc odd(n: int): bool =
+  assert(n >= 0) # makes sure we don't run into negative recursion
+  if n == 0: false
+  else:
     n == 1 or even(n-1)
 
-  proc even(n: int): bool =
+proc even(n: int): bool =
+  assert(n >= 0) # makes sure we don't run into negative recursion
+  if n == 1: false
+  else:
     n == 0 or odd(n-1)
 
 Here ``odd`` depends on ``even`` and vice versa. Thus ``even`` needs to be
 introduced to the compiler before it is completely defined. The syntax for
 such a forward declaration is simple: just omit the ``=`` and the
-procedure's body.
+procedure's body. The ``assert`` just adds border conditions, and will be 
+covered later in `Modules`_ section.
 
 Later versions of the language will weaken the requirements for forward
 declarations.