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diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt index 45bbe8c44..89e075b6c 100644 --- a/web/news.txt +++ b/web/news.txt @@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ News Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - + - ``tables.[]``, ``strtabs.[]``, ``critbits.[]`` **now raise** + the ``KeyError`` **exception when the key does not exist**! Use the + new ``getOrDefault`` instead to get the old behaviour. Compile all your + code with ``-d:nimTableGet`` to get a listing of where your code + uses ``[]``! - The ``rawsockets`` module has been renamed to ``nativesockets`` to avoid confusion with TCP/IP raw sockets, so ``newNativeSocket`` should be used instead of ``newRawSocket``. @@ -68,10 +72,10 @@ News * ``libeay32.dll``: Split into ``libeay32.dll`` and ``libeay64.dll``. Compile with ``-d:nimOldDLLs`` to make the stdlib use the old DLL names. - - Nim VM now treats objects as nkObjConstr nodes, and not nkPar nodes as it - was previously. Macros that generate nkPar nodes when object is expected are - likely to break. Macros that expect nkPar nodes to which objects are passed - are likely to break as well. + - Nim VM now treats objects as ``nkObjConstr`` nodes, and not ``nkPar`` nodes + as it was previously. Macros that generate ``nkPar`` nodes when object is + expected are likely to break. Macros that expect ``nkPar`` nodes to which + objects are passed are likely to break as well. - Base methods now need to be annotated with the ``base`` pragma. This makes multi methods less error-prone to use with the effect system. - Nim's parser directive ``#!`` is now ``#?`` in order to produce no conflicts @@ -86,7 +90,7 @@ News echo f(0, "abc") - The ``ftpclient`` module is now deprecated in favour of the - ``asyncdispatch`` module. + ``asyncftpclient`` module. - In sequtils.nim renamed ``repeat`` function to ``cycle`` (concatenating a sequence by itself the given times), and also introduced ``repeat``, which repeats an element the given times. |