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-rw-r--r--lib/pure/future.nim21
-rw-r--r--tests/macros/tdump.nim13
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/pure/future.nim b/lib/pure/future.nim
index 67975cfcb..2a6d29933 100644
--- a/lib/pure/future.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/future.nim
@@ -177,3 +177,24 @@ macro `[]`*(lc: ListComprehension, comp, typ: untyped): untyped =
               newIdentNode("@"),
               newNimNode(nnkBracket))),
           result))))
+
+
+macro dump*(x: typed): untyped =
+  ## Dumps the content of an expression, useful for debugging.
+  ## It accepts any expression and prints a textual representation
+  ## of the tree representing the expression - as it would appear in
+  ## source code - together with the value of the expression.
+  ##
+  ## As an example,
+  ##
+  ## .. code-block:: nim
+  ##   let
+  ##     x = 10
+  ##     y = 20
+  ##   dump(x + y)
+  ##
+  ## will print ``x + y = 30``.
+  let s = x.toStrLit
+  let r = quote do:
+    debugEcho `s`, " = ", `x`
+  return r
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diff --git a/tests/macros/tdump.nim b/tests/macros/tdump.nim
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e4c14dc6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/macros/tdump.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+discard """
+  output: '''x = 10
+x + y = 30
+'''
+"""
+
+import future
+
+let
+  x = 10
+  y = 20
+dump x
+dump(x + y)
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