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design discussion #1

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timotheecour opened this issue Oct 9, 2020 · 0 comments
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design discussion #1

timotheecour opened this issue Oct 9, 2020 · 0 comments

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timotheecour commented Oct 9, 2020

(migrated from FedeOmoto#4)

  • reference type inputs shouldn't be returned
    eg: in
proc set*(z, x: Int): Int =
  ## Sets `z` to `x` and returns `z`.
  result = z
  mpz_set(result[], x[])

it's misleading and un-necessary to return z given that z gets modified; nim code doesn't usually do that, and for good reasons.

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