Merge pull request #1075 from flaviut/inlinedocs

Add some documentations and code examples in system

tests/misc/tstrdist.nim

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+# compute the edit distance between two strings
+
+proc editDistance(a, b: string): int =
+  var
+    c: seq[int]
+    n = a.len
+    m = b.len
+  newSeq(c, (n+1)*(m+1))
+  for i in 0..n:
+    c[i*n] = i # [i,0]
+  for j in 0..m:
+    c[j] = j # [0,j]
+
+  for i in 1..n:
+    for j in 1..m:
+      var x = c[(i-1)*n + j]+1
+      var y = c[i*n + j-1]+1
+      var z: int
+      if a[i-1] == b[j-1]:
+        z = c[(i-1)*n + j-1]
+      else:
+        z = c[(i-1)*n + j-1]+1
+      c[(i-1)*n + (j-1)] = min(x,min(y,z))
+  return c[n*m]
+
+write(stdout, editDistance("abc", "abd"))