From f84911364a8cb6c8737367a2b34a1125f9f02e39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Euan <euantorano@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:51:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing isNilOrWhitespace to handle empty/nil.

---
 lib/pure/strutils.nim | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/pure/strutils.nim b/lib/pure/strutils.nim
index 51694e6ad..7d1b1a3d9 100644
--- a/lib/pure/strutils.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/strutils.nim
@@ -333,8 +333,13 @@ proc isNilOrEmpty*(s: string): bool {.noSideEffect, procvar, rtl, extern: "nsuIs
 
 proc isNilOrWhitespace*(s: string): bool {.noSideEffect, procvar, rtl, extern: "nsuIsNilOrWhitespace".} =
   ## Checks if `s` is nil or consists entirely of whitespace characters.
-  ##
-  ## This is an alias to `isSpace`.
+  if len(s) == 0:
+    return true
+
+  result = true
+  for c in s:
+    if not c.isSpace():
+      return false
 
 iterator split*(s: string, seps: set[char] = Whitespace,
                 maxsplit: int = -1): string =