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Nim was written in Pascal at the very beginning. But you can't do pointer arithmetics in Nim. Either - `type Foo = object` -> Value type, on the stack - `ty

Nim was written in Pascal at the very beginning. But you can't do pointer arithmetics in Nim. Either - `type Foo = object` -> Value type, on the stack - `type Foo = ref object` -> Ref type, managed by GC - `type Foo = ptr object` -> Pointer type, manual memory management (malloc, free, memcopy ...)

dom96 9y ago
> But you can't do pointer arithmetics in Nim. Actually you can, by using casts.
- mratsim 9y ago
  Oops, I obviously meant "you can" but I probably typed too fast :P