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authorawr1 <41453959+awr1@users.noreply.github.com>2018-08-26 10:15:19 -0500
committerAndreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>2018-08-26 17:15:19 +0200
commit96d44fdd0a24bc5cbfe29de6079da6882388aed8 (patch)
tree6bf493a156641361a79dd0db700ab5b8ee20fd9d /lib
parente9b665f33890d78d78cc851febac1caee5a30b5b (diff)
downloadNim-96d44fdd0a24bc5cbfe29de6079da6882388aed8.tar.gz
Deprecate xlen() for strings and seqs (#8782)
* deprecates xlen() for strings and seqs

* added docs
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/system.nim9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/system.nim b/lib/system.nim
index 8b98706ab..2c88fe60f 100644
--- a/lib/system.nim
+++ b/lib/system.nim
@@ -4055,10 +4055,15 @@ proc procCall*(x: untyped) {.magic: "ProcCall", compileTime.} =
   ##   procCall someMethod(a, b)
   discard
 
-proc xlen*(x: string): int {.magic: "XLenStr", noSideEffect.} = discard
-proc xlen*[T](x: seq[T]): int {.magic: "XLenSeq", noSideEffect.} =
+proc xlen*(x: string): int {.magic: "XLenStr", noSideEffect,
+                             deprecated: "use len() instead".} =
+  ## **Deprecated since version 0.18.1**. Use len() instead.
+  discard
+proc xlen*[T](x: seq[T]): int {.magic: "XLenSeq", noSideEffect,
+                                deprecated: "use len() instead".} =
   ## returns the length of a sequence or a string without testing for 'nil'.
   ## This is an optimization that rarely makes sense.
+  ## **Deprecated since version 0.18.1**. Use len() instead.
   discard