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<p class="module-desc">New styled concepts for Nim. See <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/168">https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/168</a> for details. Note this is a first implementation and only the &quot;Concept matching&quot; section has been implemented.
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<dt><pre><a href="concepts.html#MatchFlags"><span class="Identifier">MatchFlags</span></a> <span class="Other">=</span> <span class="Keyword">enum</span>
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<dt><pre><span class="Keyword">proc</span> <a href="#conceptBody%2CPType"><span class="Identifier">conceptBody</span></a><span class="Other">(</span><span class="Identifier">n</span><span class="Other">:</span> <a href="astdef.html#PType"><span class="Identifier">PType</span></a><span class="Other">)</span><span class="Other">:</span> <a href="astdef.html#PNode"><span class="Identifier">PNode</span></a> {.<span><span class="Other pragmadots">...</span></span><span class="pragmawrap"><span class="Identifier">raises</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Other">[</span><span class="Identifier">Exception</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">OSError</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">KeyError</span><span class="Other">,</span>
<span class="Identifier">ValueError</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">IOError</span><span class="Other">]</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">tags</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Other">[</span><span class="Identifier">RootEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">WriteIOEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ReadEnvEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span>
<span class="Identifier">ReadIOEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ReadDirEffect</span><span class="Other">]</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">forbids</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Other">[</span><span class="Other">]</span></span>.}</pre></dt>
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<a href="https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/tree/devel/compiler/concepts.nim#L155" class="link-seesrc" target="_blank">Source</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<dt><pre><span class="Keyword">proc</span> <a href="#conceptMatch%2CPContext%2CPType%2CPType%2CLayeredIdTableObj%2CPType%2Cset%5BMatchFlags%5D"><span class="Identifier">conceptMatch</span></a><span class="Other">(</span><span class="Identifier">c</span><span class="Other">:</span> <a href="semdata.html#PContext"><span class="Identifier">PContext</span></a><span class="Other">;</span> <span class="Identifier">concpt</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">arg</span><span class="Other">:</span> <a href="astdef.html#PType"><span class="Identifier">PType</span></a><span class="Other">;</span> <span class="Identifier">bindings</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Keyword">var</span> <a href="layeredtable.html#LayeredIdTable"><span class="Identifier">LayeredIdTable</span></a><span class="Other">;</span>
<span class="Identifier">invocation</span><span class="Other">:</span> <a href="astdef.html#PType"><span class="Identifier">PType</span></a><span class="Other">;</span> <span class="Identifier">flags</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Identifier">set</span><span class="Other">[</span><a href="concepts.html#MatchFlags"><span class="Identifier">MatchFlags</span></a><span class="Other">]</span> <span class="Other">=</span> <span class="Other">{</span><span class="Other">}</span><span class="Other">)</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Identifier">bool</span> {.
<span><span class="Other pragmadots">...</span></span><span class="pragmawrap"><span class="Identifier">raises</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Other">[</span><span class="Identifier">Exception</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">OSError</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">KeyError</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ValueError</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">IOError</span><span class="Other">]</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">tags</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Other">[</span>
<span class="Identifier">RootEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">WriteIOEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ReadEnvEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ReadIOEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ReadDirEffect</span><span class="Other">]</span><span class="Other">,</span>
<span class="Identifier">forbids</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Other">[</span><span class="Other">]</span></span>.}</pre></dt>
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Entry point from sigmatch. 'concpt' is the concept we try to match (here still a PType but we extract its AST via 'concpt.n.lastSon'). 'arg' is the type that might fulfill the concept's requirements. If so, we return true and fill the 'bindings' with pairs of (typeVar, instance) pairs. ('typeVar' is usually simply written as a generic 'T'.) 'invocation' can be nil for atomic concepts. For non-atomic concepts, it contains the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><span class="Identifier">C</span><span class="Punctuation">[</span><span class="Identifier">S</span><span class="Punctuation">,</span> <span class="Identifier">T</span><span class="Punctuation">]</span></span></tt> parent type that we look for. We need this because we need to store bindings for 'S' and 'T' inside 'bindings' on a successful match. It is very important that we do not add any bindings at all on an unsuccessful match!
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<dt><pre><span class="Keyword">proc</span> <a href="#semConceptDeclaration%2CPContext%2CPNode"><span class="Identifier">semConceptDeclaration</span></a><span class="Other">(</span><span class="Identifier">c</span><span class="Other">:</span> <a href="semdata.html#PContext"><span class="Identifier">PContext</span></a><span class="Other">;</span> <span class="Identifier">n</span><span class="Other">:</span> <a href="astdef.html#PNode"><span class="Identifier">PNode</span></a><span class="Other">)</span><span class="Other">:</span> <a href="astdef.html#PNode"><span class="Identifier">PNode</span></a> {.<span><span class="Other pragmadots">...</span></span><span class="pragmawrap"><span class="Identifier">raises</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Other">[</span><span class="Identifier">Exception</span><span class="Other">,</span>
<span class="Identifier">OSError</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">KeyError</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ValueError</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">IOError</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ERecoverableError</span><span class="Other">]</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">tags</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Other">[</span>
<span class="Identifier">RootEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">WriteIOEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ReadEnvEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ReadIOEffect</span><span class="Other">,</span> <span class="Identifier">ReadDirEffect</span><span class="Other">]</span><span class="Other">,</span>
<span class="Identifier">forbids</span><span class="Other">:</span> <span class="Other">[</span><span class="Other">]</span></span>.}</pre></dt>
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Semantic checking for the concept declaration. Runs when we process the concept itself, not its matching process.
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