From 3215666e33846db87e3b3ac1b6ab51a14f7b6912 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Araq <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:27:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixes #1666

---
 lib/system.nim | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/system.nim b/lib/system.nim
index f268889d6..62f11bc9a 100644
--- a/lib/system.nim
+++ b/lib/system.nim
@@ -2125,7 +2125,7 @@ elif hostOS != "standalone":
       inc(i)
   {.pop.}
 
-proc echo*[T](x: varargs[T, `$`]) {.magic: "Echo", tags: [WriteIOEffect], benign.}
+proc echo*(x: varargs[string, `$`]) {.magic: "Echo", tags: [WriteIOEffect], benign.}
   ## Writes and flushes the parameters to the standard output.
   ##
   ## Special built-in that takes a variable number of arguments. Each argument
@@ -2140,8 +2140,8 @@ proc echo*[T](x: varargs[T, `$`]) {.magic: "Echo", tags: [WriteIOEffect], benign
   ## <manual.html#nosideeffect-pragma>`_ you can use `debugEcho <#debugEcho>`_
   ## instead.
 
-proc debugEcho*[T](x: varargs[T, `$`]) {.magic: "Echo", noSideEffect, 
-                                         tags: [], raises: [].}
+proc debugEcho*(x: varargs[string, `$`]) {.magic: "Echo", noSideEffect, 
+                                           tags: [], raises: [].}
   ## Same as `echo <#echo>`_, but as a special semantic rule, ``debugEcho``
   ## pretends to be free of side effects, so that it can be used for debugging
   ## routines marked as `noSideEffect <manual.html#nosideeffect-pragma>`_.