From 38b836b49e772aed38077d6aac810da183d03255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ico Doornekamp <ico@pruts.nl>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:41:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Moved 'Case statement macros' documentation out of manual
 into manual_experimental (#11716)

---
 doc/manual.rst              | 51 -------------------------------------
 doc/manual_experimental.rst | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/manual.rst b/doc/manual.rst
index 31ca1e7735..36b56f8507 100644
--- a/doc/manual.rst
+++ b/doc/manual.rst
@@ -5149,57 +5149,6 @@ Currently for loop macros must be enabled explicitly
 via ``{.experimental: "forLoopMacros".}``.
 
 
-Case statement macros
----------------------
-
-A macro that needs to be called `match`:idx: can be used to rewrite
-``case`` statements in order to implement `pattern matching`:idx: for
-certain types. The following example implements a simplistic form of
-pattern matching for tuples, leveraging the existing equality operator
-for tuples (as provided in ``system.==``):
-
-.. code-block:: nim
-    :test: "nim c $1"
-
-  {.experimental: "caseStmtMacros".}
-
-  import macros
-
-  macro match(n: tuple): untyped =
-    result = newTree(nnkIfStmt)
-    let selector = n[0]
-    for i in 1 ..< n.len:
-      let it = n[i]
-      case it.kind
-      of nnkElse, nnkElifBranch, nnkElifExpr, nnkElseExpr:
-        result.add it
-      of nnkOfBranch:
-        for j in 0..it.len-2:
-          let cond = newCall("==", selector, it[j])
-          result.add newTree(nnkElifBranch, cond, it[^1])
-      else:
-        error "'match' cannot handle this node", it
-    echo repr result
-
-  case ("foo", 78)
-  of ("foo", 78): echo "yes"
-  of ("bar", 88): echo "no"
-  else: discard
-
-
-Currently case statement macros must be enabled explicitly
-via ``{.experimental: "caseStmtMacros".}``.
-
-``match`` macros are subject to overload resolution. First the
-``case``'s selector expression is used to determine which ``match``
-macro to call. To this macro is then passed the complete ``case``
-statement body and the macro is evaluated.
-
-In other words, the macro needs to transform the full ``case`` statement
-but only the statement's selector expression is used to determine which
-macro to call.
-
-
 Special Types
 =============
 
diff --git a/doc/manual_experimental.rst b/doc/manual_experimental.rst
index a341f33dec..1b007722ca 100644
--- a/doc/manual_experimental.rst
+++ b/doc/manual_experimental.rst
@@ -886,6 +886,57 @@ The builtin ``deepCopy`` can even clone closures and their environments. See
 the documentation of `spawn`_ for details.
 
 
+Case statement macros
+=====================
+
+A macro that needs to be called `match`:idx: can be used to rewrite
+``case`` statements in order to implement `pattern matching`:idx: for
+certain types. The following example implements a simplistic form of
+pattern matching for tuples, leveraging the existing equality operator
+for tuples (as provided in ``system.==``):
+
+.. code-block:: nim
+    :test: "nim c $1"
+
+  {.experimental: "caseStmtMacros".}
+
+  import macros
+
+  macro match(n: tuple): untyped =
+    result = newTree(nnkIfStmt)
+    let selector = n[0]
+    for i in 1 ..< n.len:
+      let it = n[i]
+      case it.kind
+      of nnkElse, nnkElifBranch, nnkElifExpr, nnkElseExpr:
+        result.add it
+      of nnkOfBranch:
+        for j in 0..it.len-2:
+          let cond = newCall("==", selector, it[j])
+          result.add newTree(nnkElifBranch, cond, it[^1])
+      else:
+        error "'match' cannot handle this node", it
+    echo repr result
+
+  case ("foo", 78)
+  of ("foo", 78): echo "yes"
+  of ("bar", 88): echo "no"
+  else: discard
+
+
+Currently case statement macros must be enabled explicitly
+via ``{.experimental: "caseStmtMacros".}``.
+
+``match`` macros are subject to overload resolution. First the
+``case``'s selector expression is used to determine which ``match``
+macro to call. To this macro is then passed the complete ``case``
+statement body and the macro is evaluated.
+
+In other words, the macro needs to transform the full ``case`` statement
+but only the statement's selector expression is used to determine which
+macro to call.
+
+
 Term rewriting macros
 =====================