Merge pull request #3638 from yglukhov/patch-2

Added a few notes regarding JavaScript
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Andreas Rumpf
2015-12-10 10:58:52 +01:00

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@@ -990,3 +990,17 @@ generated by `treeRepr <macros.html#treeRepr>`_. If at the end of the this
example you add ``echo treeRepr(result)`` you should get the same output as
using the ``dumpTree`` macro, but of course you can call that at any point of
the macro where you might be having troubles.
Compilation to JavaScript
=========================
Nim code can be compiled to JavaScript. However in order to write
JavaScript-compatible code you should remember the following:
- ``addr`` and ``ptr`` have slightly different semantic meaning in JavaScript.
It is recommended to avoid those if you're not sure how they are translated
to JavaScript.
- ``cast[T](x)`` in JavaScript is translated to ``(x)``.
- ``cstring`` in JavaScript means JavaScript string. It is a good practice to
use ``cstring`` only when it is semantically appropriate. E.g. don't use
``cstring`` as a binary data buffer.