better support for view types (#15436)

* you can put borrows into tables

* enforces mutating views only mutate mutable data

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/views/tsplit_into_table.nim b/tests/views/tsplit_into_table.nim
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+discard """
+  output: '''5: 231
+0: asdf
+'''
+"""
+
+import tables
+
+{.experimental: "views".}
+
+const
+  Whitespace = {' ', '\t', '\n', '\r'}
+
+proc split*(s: string, seps: set[char] = Whitespace,
+                maxsplit: int = -1): Table[int, openArray[char]] =
+  var last = 0
+  var splits = maxsplit
+  result = initTable[int, openArray[char]]()
+
+  while last <= len(s):
+    var first = last
+    while last < len(s) and s[last] notin seps:
+      inc(last)
+    if splits == 0: last = len(s)
+    result[first] = toOpenArray(s, first, last-1)
+
+    if splits == 0: break
+    dec(splits)
+    inc(last)
+
+proc `$`(x: openArray[char]): string =
+  result = newString(x.len)
+  for i in 0..<x.len: result[i] = x[i]
+
+proc main() =
+  let words = split("asdf 231")
+  for i, x in words:
+    echo i, ": ", x
+
+main()