From 6fd0a332659cb01c1074a9e0c6b2e443ec600f8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Araq Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 23:48:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Tutorial 1: Simplifiy the discription of enums; it is a tutorial, not a manual --- doc/tut1.rst | 13 ++----------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/tut1.rst b/doc/tut1.rst index e200cfe8ba..a7f1b741ad 100644 --- a/doc/tut1.rst +++ b/doc/tut1.rst @@ -1112,21 +1112,12 @@ proc can convert it to its underlying integer value. For better interfacing to other programming languages, the symbols of enum types can be assigned an explicit ordinal value. However, the ordinal values -must be in ascending order. A symbol whose ordinal value is not -explicitly given is assigned the value of the previous symbol + 1. - -An explicit ordered enum can have *holes*: - -.. code-block:: nim - :test: "nim c $1" - type - MyEnum = enum - a = 2, b = 4, c = 89 +must be in ascending order. Ordinal types ------------- -Enumerations without holes, integer types, ``char`` and ``bool`` (and +Enumerations, integer types, ``char`` and ``bool`` (and subranges) are called ordinal types. Ordinal types have quite a few special operations: