Merge branch 'devel' of github.com:Araq/Nimrod into devel

doc/manual.txt

@@ -79,8 +79,21 @@ program execution. Unless explicitly classified, an error is a static error.
 
 A `checked runtime error`:idx: is an error that the implementation detects
 and reports at runtime. The method for reporting such errors is via *raising
-exceptions*. However, the implementation provides a means to disable these
+exceptions* or *dying with a fatal error*. However, the implementation 
-runtime checks. See the section pragmas_ for details.
+provides a means to disable these runtime checks. See the section pragmas_
+for details. 
+
+Wether a checked runtime error results in an exception or in a fatal error at
+runtime is implementation specific. Thus the following program is always
+invalid:
+
+.. code-block:: nimrod
+  var a: array[0..1, char]
+  let i = 5
+  try:
+    a[i] = 'N'
+  except EInvalidIndex:
+    echo "invalid index"
 
 An `unchecked runtime error`:idx: is an error that is not guaranteed to be
 detected, and can cause the subsequent behavior of the computation to
@@ -522,7 +535,7 @@ Strong spaces
 The number of spaces preceeding a non-keyword operator affects precedence
 if the experimental parser directive ``#!strongSpaces`` is used. Indentation
 is not used to determine the number of spaces. If 2 or more operators have the
-same number of preceeding spaces the precedence table applies, so ``1 + 3 * 4``
+same number of preceding spaces the precedence table applies, so ``1 + 3 * 4``
 is still parsed as ``1 + (3 * 4)``, but ``1+3 * 4`` is parsed as ``(1+3) * 4``:
 
 .. code-block:: nimrod
@@ -3487,7 +3500,7 @@ Declarative type classes are written in the following form:
       c.len is ordinal
       items(c) is iterator
       for value in c:
-        value.type is T
+        type(value) is T
 
 The type class will be matched if:
 

lib/pure/osproc.nim

@@ -606,6 +606,7 @@ elif not defined(useNimRtl):
     optionPoParentStreams: bool
     optionPoStdErrToStdOut: bool
 
+  when not defined(useFork):
     proc startProcessAuxSpawn(data: TStartProcessData): TPid {.tags: [FExecIO, FReadEnv].}
   proc startProcessAuxFork(data: TStartProcessData): TPid {.tags: [FExecIO, FReadEnv].}
   {.push stacktrace: off, profiler: off.}
@@ -664,7 +665,8 @@ elif not defined(useNimRtl):
     data.workingDir = workingDir
 
 
-    when defined(posix_spawn) and not defined(useFork) and not defined(useClone) and not defined(linux):
+    when defined(posix_spawn) and not defined(useFork) and 
+        not defined(useClone) and not defined(linux):
       pid = startProcessAuxSpawn(data)
     else:
       pid = startProcessAuxFork(data)
@@ -694,6 +696,7 @@ elif not defined(useNimRtl):
       discard close(pStdin[readIdx])
       discard close(pStdout[writeIdx])
 
+  when not defined(useFork):
     proc startProcessAuxSpawn(data: TStartProcessData): TPid =
       var attr: Tposix_spawnattr
       var fops: Tposix_spawn_file_actions

tests/parser/tstrongspaces.nim

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#! strongSpaces
+
+discard """
+  output: '''35
+77
+(Field0: 1, Field1: 2, Field2: 2)
+ha
+true
+tester args
+all
+all args
+'''
+"""
+
+echo 2+5 * 5
+
+let foo = 77
+echo $foo
+
+echo (1, 2, 2)
+
+template `&`(a, b: int): expr = a and b
+template `|`(a, b: int): expr = a - b
+template `++`(a, b: int): expr = a + b == 8009
+
+when true:
+  let b = 66
+  let c = 90
+  let bar = 8000
+  if foo+4 * 4 == 8 and b&c | 9  ++
+      bar:
+    echo "ho"
+  else:
+    echo "ha"
+
+  let booA = foo+4 * 4  -  b&c | 9  +
+      bar
+  # is parsed as
+  let booB = ((foo+4)*4) - ((b&c) | 9) + bar
+
+  echo booA == booB
+
+
+template `|`(a, b): expr = (if a.len > 0: a else: b)
+
+const
+  tester = "tester"
+  args = "args"
+
+echo tester & " " & args|"all"
+echo "all"  |  tester & " " & args
+echo "all"|tester & " " & args

todo.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 version 0.9.4
 =============
 
-- make testament produce full JSON information
 - fix gensym capture bug
 - vm
   - at least try to get the basic type zoo ops right