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authorAndre Polykanine A.K.A. Menelion ElensĂșlĂ« <andre@oire.org>2017-10-21 02:11:54 +0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-10-21 02:11:54 +0300
commit2dc7a13e5408326b6aa4bd1d60bc6418cab3a99a (patch)
treeae3c8aa63eeebfef6fbc5eaa2491832c4df33f0b
parent2e9cad560feeadc9ceebcf33101067c111ca4de5 (diff)
parent5bbb8ef6cd315e0a1d6373f878f66146ba4ef938 (diff)
Merge pull request #2925 from kaymmm/nim-multiline-comments
[nim/en] Add multi-line comments
-rw-r--r--nim.html.markdown23
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/nim.html.markdown b/nim.html.markdown
index 07674532..30dfa94f 100644
--- a/nim.html.markdown
+++ b/nim.html.markdown
@@ -12,6 +12,25 @@ that gives the programmer power without compromises on runtime efficiency.
Nim is efficient, expressive, and elegant.
```nim
+# Single-line comments start with a #
+
+#[
+ Multi-line comments begin with a #[
+ ... and end with ]#
+
+They don't care about indentation
+
+ #[
+ and they can be nested
+ ]#
+
+]#
+
+discard """
+This can also work as a multiline comment.
+Or for unparsable, broken code
+"""
+
var # Declare (and assign) variables,
letter: char = 'n' # with or without type annotations
lang = "N" & "im"
@@ -35,10 +54,6 @@ when compileBadCode: # `when` is a compile time `if`
discard 1 > 2 # Note: The compiler will complain if the result of an expression
# is unused. `discard` bypasses this.
-discard """
-This can work as a multiline comment.
-Or for unparsable, broken code
-"""
#
# Data Structures