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This patch greatly improves the "step over" operation available in debuggers. In practice, there are often 4-8 lines of C code generated for each nimrod line Each such line will be responsible to a single step in the debugger that is a) not expected by the user b) taking the user to an incorrect line in the nimrod code To keep this working, all code generation should use the rope formatting facilities when producing new lines (i.e. $n and $N). New semantics for the format string are introduced: $n means "soft new line" that could be joined/broken when lineDir is enabled. $N means "hard new line" that will always appear as a new line. As an alternative to this approach, I also tested producing code like this: #line "code.nim" 154 foo = bar; \ foo(bar) \ This is better for readability of the final output, but unfortunately it didn't produce the desired result across all compilers/debuggers.
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Nimrod Compiler
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This is the **Nimrod Compiler**. Nimrod is a new statically typed, imperative
programming language, that supports procedural, functional, object oriented and
generic programming styles while remaining simple and efficient. A special
feature that Nimrod inherited from Lisp is that Nimrod's abstract syntax tree
(AST) is part of the specification - this allows a powerful macro system which
can be used to create domain specific languages.
*Nimrod* is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language
which has an excellent productivity/performance ratio. Nimrod's design
focuses on the 3E: efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of
priority).
See the file ``install.txt`` for installation instructions. See the file
``doc/intern.txt`` for the internal documentation for developers.
Copyright (c) 2004-2011 Andreas Rumpf.
All rights reserved.