improved comment satement support in macros (#5904)

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/core/macros.nim b/lib/core/macros.nim
index 13f341350..af1e9de28 100644
--- a/lib/core/macros.nim
+++ b/lib/core/macros.nim
@@ -255,6 +255,11 @@ proc newStrLitNode*(s: string): NimNode {.compileTime, noSideEffect.} =
   result = newNimNode(nnkStrLit)
   result.strVal = s
 
+proc newCommentStmtNode*(s: string): NimNode {.compileTime, noSideEffect.} =
+  ## creates a comment statement node
+  result = newNimNode(nnkCommentStmt)
+  result.strVal = s
+
 proc newIntLitNode*(i: BiggestInt): NimNode {.compileTime.} =
   ## creates a int literal node from `i`
   result = newNimNode(nnkIntLit)
@@ -275,6 +280,7 @@ proc newIdentNode*(i: string): NimNode {.compileTime.} =
   result = newNimNode(nnkIdent)
   result.ident = !i
 
+
 type
   BindSymRule* = enum    ## specifies how ``bindSym`` behaves
     brClosed,            ## only the symbols in current scope are bound
@@ -835,6 +841,8 @@ proc `$`*(node: NimNode): string {.compileTime.} =
     result = $node[0]
   of nnkAccQuoted:
     result = $node[0]
+  of nnkCommentStmt:
+    result = node.strVal
   else:
     badNodeKind node.kind, "$"