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diff --git a/doc/nimrodc.txt b/doc/nimrodc.txt index a7c84a0ec..4a94bc8cf 100755 --- a/doc/nimrodc.txt +++ b/doc/nimrodc.txt @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ .. contents:: + "Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and + sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, + immortal machine?" + Introduction ============ @@ -242,7 +246,7 @@ memory, but nothing worse happens. DeadCodeElim Pragma -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The `deadCodeElim`:idx: pragma only applies to whole modules: It tells the compiler to activate (or deactivate) dead code elimination for the module the pragma appers in. @@ -304,13 +308,13 @@ Optimizing string handling String assignments are sometimes expensive in Nimrod: They are required to copy the whole string. However, the compiler is often smart enough to not copy strings. Due to the argument passing semantics, strings are never copied when -passed to subroutines. The compiler does not copy strings that are result from -a procedure call, because the called procedure returns a new string anyway. +passed to subroutines. The compiler does not copy strings that are a result from +a procedure call, because the callee returns a new string anyway. Thus it is efficient to do: .. code-block:: Nimrod var s = procA() # assignment will not copy the string; procA allocates a new - # string anyway + # string already However it is not efficient to do: |