Changed tests and tools to use 'discard' statements instead of 'nil' for empty blocks.

tests/stdlib/tircbot.nim

@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ type
     channel: string
     timestamp: TTime
     case kind*: TSeenType
-    of PSeenJoin: nil
+    of PSeenJoin: discard
     of PSeenPart, PSeenQuit, PSeenMsg:
       msg: string
     of PSeenNick:
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ proc setSeen(d: TDb, s: TSeen) =
   var hashToSet = @[("type", $s.kind.int), ("channel", s.channel),
                     ("timestamp", $s.timestamp.int)]
   case s.kind
-  of PSeenJoin: nil
+  of PSeenJoin: discard
   of PSeenPart, PSeenMsg, PSeenQuit:
     hashToSet.add(("msg", s.msg))
   of PSeenNick:
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ proc hubConnect(state: PState) =
 
 proc handleIrc(irc: PAsyncIRC, event: TIRCEvent, state: PState) =
   case event.typ
-  of EvConnected: nil
+  of EvConnected: discard
   of EvDisconnected:
     while not state.ircClient.isConnected:
       try:
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ proc handleIrc(irc: PAsyncIRC, event: TIRCEvent, state: PState) =
       seenNick.newNick = event.params[0]
       state.database.setSeen(seenNick)
     else:
-      nil # TODO: ?
+      discard # TODO: ?
 
 proc open(port: TPort = TPort(5123)): PState =
   var res: PState

tests/stdlib/tmath2.nim

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # tests for the interpreter
 
 proc loops(a: var int) =
-  nil
+  discard
   #var
   #  b: int
   #b = glob

tests/stdlib/tos.nim

@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ proc walkDirTree(root: string) =
     case k 
     of pcFile, pcLinkToFile: echo(f)
     of pcDir: walkDirTree(f)
-    of pcLinkToDir: nil
+    of pcLinkToDir: discard
 
 walkDirTree(".")

tests/stdlib/tpegs.nim

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ type
     rule: TNode                   ## the rule that the symbol refers to
   TNode {.final, shallow.} = object
     case kind: TPegKind
-    of pkEmpty..pkWhitespace: nil
+    of pkEmpty..pkWhitespace: discard
     of pkTerminal, pkTerminalIgnoreCase, pkTerminalIgnoreStyle: term: string
     of pkChar, pkGreedyRepChar: ch: char
     of pkCharChoice, pkGreedyRepSet: charChoice: ref set[char]
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ proc add(d: var TPeg, s: TPeg) {.inline.} = add(d.sons, s)
 proc copyPeg(a: TPeg): TPeg = 
   result.kind = a.kind
   case a.kind
-  of pkEmpty..pkWhitespace: nil
+  of pkEmpty..pkWhitespace: discard
   of pkTerminal, pkTerminalIgnoreCase, pkTerminalIgnoreStyle: 
     result.term = a.term
   of pkChar, pkGreedyRepChar: 
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ when false:
     case a.kind
     of pkEmpty, pkAny, pkAnyRune, pkGreedyAny, pkNewLine, pkTerminal,
        pkTerminalIgnoreCase, pkTerminalIgnoreStyle, pkChar, pkGreedyRepChar,
-       pkCharChoice, pkGreedyRepSet: nil
+       pkCharChoice, pkGreedyRepSet: discard
     of pkNonTerminal: return true
     else:
       for i in 0..a.sons.len-1:
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ proc backrefIgnoreStyle*(index: range[1..MaxSubPatterns]): TPeg {.
 
 proc spaceCost(n: TPeg): int =
   case n.kind
-  of pkEmpty: nil
+  of pkEmpty: discard
   of pkTerminal, pkTerminalIgnoreCase, pkTerminalIgnoreStyle, pkChar,
      pkGreedyRepChar, pkCharChoice, pkGreedyRepSet, 
      pkAny..pkWhitespace, pkGreedyAny:
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ proc handleHexChar(c: var TPegLexer, xi: var int) =
   of 'A'..'F': 
     xi = (xi shl 4) or (ord(c.buf[c.bufpos]) - ord('A') + 10)
     inc(c.bufpos)
-  else: nil
+  else: discard
 
 proc getEscapedChar(c: var TPegLexer, tok: var TToken) = 
   inc(c.bufpos)
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ proc getTok(c: var TPegLexer, tok: var TToken) =
       of "i": tok.modifier = modIgnoreCase
       of "y": tok.modifier = modIgnoreStyle
       of "v": tok.modifier = modVerbatim
-      else: nil
+      else: discard
       setLen(tok.literal, 0)
       if c.buf[c.bufpos] == '$':
         getDollar(c, tok)
@@ -1488,7 +1488,7 @@ proc primary(p: var TPegParser): TPeg =
   of tkCurlyAt:
     getTok(p)
     return !*\primary(p).token(p)
-  else: nil
+  else: discard
   case p.tok.kind
   of tkIdentifier:
     if p.identIsVerbatim: