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diff --git a/doc/tools.txt b/doc/tools.txt index 7f2830879..b0a45c575 100644 --- a/doc/tools.txt +++ b/doc/tools.txt @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Tools available with Nim The standard distribution ships with the following tools: +- | `Nimsuggest for IDE support <nimsuggest.html>`_ + | Through the ``nimsuggest`` tool, any IDE can query a ``.nim`` source file + and obtain useful information like definition of symbols or suggestions for + completion. + - | `Nim Installation Generator <niminst.html>`_ | How to generate a nice installer for your Nim program. diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt index 7735f3cbf..0f3f8def6 100644 --- a/web/news.txt +++ b/web/news.txt @@ -26,12 +26,18 @@ What's left to be done The 1.0 release is expected by the end of this year. Rumors say it will be in summer 2015. What's left: -* Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes! +* Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes, in particular: + - The remaining bugs of the lambda lifting pass that is responsible to enable + closures and closure iterators need to be fixed. + - ``concept`` needs to be refined, a nice name for the feature is not enough. + - Destructors need to be refined. + - ``static[T]`` needs to be fixed. + - Finish the implementation of the 'parallel' statement. * ``immediate`` templates and macros will be deprecated as these will soon be completely unnecessary, instead the ``typed`` or ``untyped`` metatypes can be used. -* The standard library needs cleanups and should use the features we have for - concurrency and parallelism. +* More of the standard library should be moved to Nimble packages and what's + left should use the features we have for concurrency and parallelism. @@ -51,6 +57,7 @@ Changes affecting backwards compatibility doIt: echo str # Error: undeclared identifier: 'str' +.. This used to inject the ``str`` parameter into the scope of the body. Declare the ``doIt`` template as ``immediate, dirty`` to get the old @@ -61,9 +68,10 @@ Changes affecting backwards compatibility - ``logging.level`` and ``logging.handlers`` are no longer exported. ``addHandler``, ``getHandlers``, ``setLogFilter`` and ``getLogFilter`` should be used instead. -- ``nim idetools`` has been replaced by a separate tool `nimsuggest`_. -- *arrow like* operators are not right associative anymore. -- *arrow like* operators are now required to end with either ``->``, ``~>`` or +- ``nim idetools`` has been replaced by a separate + tool `nimsuggest <0.11.0/nimsuggest.html>`_. +- *arrow like* operators are not right associative anymore and are required + to end with either ``->``, ``~>`` or ``=>``, not just ``>``. Examples of operators still considered arrow like: ``->``, ``==>``, ``+=>``. On the other hand, the following operators are now considered regular operators again: ``|>``, ``-+>``, etc. @@ -122,7 +130,8 @@ Language Additions of ``nil``. - Automatic dereferencing is now done for the first argument of a routine call if overloading resolution produces no match otherwise. This feature - has to be enabled with the `experimental`_ pragma. + has to be enabled with + the `experimental <0.11.0/manual.html#pragmas-experimental-pragma>`_ pragma. - Objects that do not use inheritance nor ``case`` can be put into ``const`` sections. This means that finally this is possible and produces rather nice code: @@ -170,8 +179,11 @@ Language Additions - ``marshal.$$`` and ``marshal.to`` can be executed at compile-time. - Interoperability with C++ improved tremendously; C++'s templates and operators can be wrapped directly. See - `this <nimc.html#additional-features-importcpp-pragma>`_ + `this <0.11.0/nimc.html#additional-features-importcpp-pragma>`_ for more information. +- ``macros.getType`` can be used to query an AST's type at compile-time. This + enables more powerful macros, for instance *currying* can now be done with + a macro. Library additions |