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types are now valid proc/template/macro params and you can overload over them:
proc foo(T: typedesc) # accept any type
proc foo(T: typedesc{int}) # overload specifically for int
proc foo(T: typedesc{int or float or Callable}) # overload for any type matching the constraints
expr{type} is a param expecting compile time value of the designated type (or type class).
when typedesc or expr params are used with a proc, the proc will be instantiated once
for each unique type/value used as parameter.
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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) 2004-2012 Andreas Rumpf.
All rights reserved.