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the new feature's name is hotCodeReloading

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@ -330,13 +330,13 @@ Hot code reloading
**Note:** At the moment hot code reloading is supported only in
JavaScript projects.
The `hotReloading` option enables special compilation mode where changes in
The `hotCodeReloading`:idx: option enables special compilation mode where changes in
the code can be applied automatically to a running program. The code reloading
happens at the granularity of an individual module. When a module is reloaded,
Nim will preserve the state of all global variables which are initialized with
a standard variable declaration in the code. All other top level code will be
executed repeatedly on each reload. If you want to prevent this behavior, you
can guard a block of code with the `once` construct:
can guard a block of code with the ``once`` construct:
.. code-block:: Nim
var settings = initTable[string, string]()
@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ re-assign a value anywhere within the top-level code:
resetProgramState()
**Known limitations:** In the JavaScript target, global variables using the
`codegenDecl` pragma will be re-initialized on each reload. Please guard the
``codegenDecl`` pragma will be re-initialized on each reload. Please guard the
initialization with a `once` block to work-around this.
**Usage in JavaScript projects:**