From 5d63ecb3a474a157f46019770c8288bb134e9aa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Araq <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 02:12:26 +0100
Subject: implemented a[^1] notation

---
 web/news.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

(limited to 'web/news.txt')

diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt
index 08a3cd6f5..1b8ddd3ce 100644
--- a/web/news.txt
+++ b/web/news.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,22 @@ News
     structure; for immediate macro parameters ``nkCall('addr', 'x')`` is
     produced instead of ``nkAddr('x')``.
   - ``concept`` is now a keyword and is used instead of ``generic``.
+  - The ``inc``, ``dec``, ``+=``, ``-=`` builtins now produces OverflowError
+    exceptions. This means code like the following:
+
+  .. code-block:: nim
+    var x = low(T)
+    while x <= high(T):
+      echo x
+      inc x
+
+  Needs to be replaced by something like this:
+
+  .. code-block:: nim
+    var x = low(T).int
+    while x <= high(T).int:
+      echo x.T
+      inc x
 
 
   Language Additions
@@ -84,6 +100,9 @@ News
     varOrConst(x) # "var"
     varOrConst(45) # "const"
 
+  - Array and seq indexing can now use the builtin ``^`` operator to access
+    things from backwards: ``a[^1]`` is like Python's ``a[-1]``.
+
 
   Library additions
   -----------------
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