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diff --git a/doc/manual/taint.txt b/doc/manual/taint.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 492686f31..000000000 --- a/doc/manual/taint.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -Taint mode -========== - -The Nim compiler and most parts of the standard library support -a taint mode. Input strings are declared with the `TaintedString`:idx: -string type declared in the ``system`` module. - -If the taint mode is turned on (via the ``--taintMode:on`` command line -option) it is a distinct string type which helps to detect input -validation errors: - -.. code-block:: nim - echo "your name: " - var name: TaintedString = stdin.readline - # it is safe here to output the name without any input validation, so - # we simply convert `name` to string to make the compiler happy: - echo "hi, ", name.string - -If the taint mode is turned off, ``TaintedString`` is simply an alias for -``string``. |