Adds distinct and borrow to the one and only true index.

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Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
2013-06-09 15:23:53 +02:00
parent 97eb4bd0ff
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@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ accesses its environment. If it does so, it has the calling convention
Distinct type
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A distinct type is new type derived from a `base type`:idx: that is
A `distinct type`:idx: is new type derived from a `base type`:idx: that is
incompatible with its base type. In particular, it is an essential property
of a distinct type that it **does not** imply a subtype relation between it
and its base type. Explicit type conversions from a distinct type to its
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ number without unit; and the same holds for division:
This quickly gets tedious. The implementations are trivial and the compiler
should not generate all this code only to optimize it away later - after all
``+`` for dollars should produce the same binary code as ``+`` for ints.
The pragma ``borrow`` has been designed to solve this problem; in principle
The pragma `borrow`:idx: has been designed to solve this problem; in principle
it generates the above trivial implementations:
.. code-block:: nimrod