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diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt index 9e6cb4e1b..91adef807 100644 --- a/web/news.txt +++ b/web/news.txt @@ -208,6 +208,34 @@ Changes affecting backwards compatibility is renamed to ``apply``. - The template ``mapIt`` now doesn't require the result's type parameter. Also the inplace ``mapIt`` is renamed to ``apply``. +- The compiler is now stricter with what is allowed as a case object + discriminator. The following code used to compile but was not supported + completely and so now fails: + +.. code-block:: nim + type + DataType* {.pure.} = enum + Char = 1, + Int8 = 2, + Int16 = 3, + Int32 = 4, + Int64 = 5, + Float32 = 6, + Float64 = 7 + + DataSeq* = object + case kind* : DataType + of DataType.Char: charSeq* : seq[char] + of DataType.Int8: int8Seq* : seq[int8] + of DataType.Int16: int16Seq* : seq[int16] + of DataType.Int32: int32Seq* : seq[int32] + of DataType.Int64: int64Seq* : seq[int64] + of DataType.Float32: float32Seq* : seq[float32] + of DataType.Float64: float64Seq* : seq[float64] + + length* : int + + Library Additions ----------------- |