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I didn't know this existed. There's a lot I like about Nim, but total rejection of tab indentation, and now this style insensitivity thing, mean that for me per
by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I didn't know this existed. There's a lot I like about Nim, but total rejection of tab indentation, and now this style insensitivity thing, mean that for me personally, Nim will just stay an interesting language I see on HN from time to time.
- nikhilsimha 4y agoI am not a fan of case insensitivity either. But it must be easy to write a case insensitive grep. I wager that a nim grep would already exist. I do agree that this is a red flag decision.
- michaelsbradley 4y agohttps://nim-lang.org/docs/nimgrep.html https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimgrep.html If you use choosenim to install Nim several executables get built/downloaded along with the compiler: $ pwd && ls /Users/me/.nimble/bin choosenim nim nim-gdb nimble nimgrep nimpretty nimsuggest testament https://github.com/dom96/choosenim#readme https://github.com/dom96/choosenim#readme
- michaelsbradley 4y agoThe partial case-insensitivity thing is not new, it's been part of Nim for a long time, maybe since its very beginning but I'm not sure about that. https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-identifier-equality https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-ident...