From 03b152ac66e2e40d840f0ab64cc1edba6593b2c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Araq Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 02:03:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fixes #1633 --- doc/manual/stmts.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manual/stmts.txt b/doc/manual/stmts.txt index 1307ff9170..8d958733d0 100644 --- a/doc/manual/stmts.txt +++ b/doc/manual/stmts.txt @@ -607,6 +607,10 @@ type name replaces the procedure name. A type conversion is always safe in the sense that a failure to convert a type to another results in an exception (if it cannot be determined statically). +Ordinary procs are often preferred over type conversions in Nim: For instance, +``$`` is the ``toString`` operator by convention and ``toFloat`` and ``toInt`` +can be used to convert from floating point to integer or vice versa. + Type casts ----------