Th documentation says that procedures marked with 'lent' return a hidden
pointer. But the code below prints two different values which shows that a copy
of the data is being returned instead of a pointer (Nim version 2.0.0 used) . I
assume that I am misunderstanding how 'lent' works, can anyone clear up my
confusion?
type T = object
x:seq[int]
proc create():T =
result.x = newseq[int](3)
proc test( t:T ): lent seq[int] =
t.x
let t = create()
echo cast[int](t.x[0].addr)
let x = test(t)
echo cast[int](x[0].addr)
Run
The background to this topic is that I wish to extract sequencies from an
object and use them without a copy being made. I was hoping that 'lent' would
offer a neater alternative to 'move'ing sequencies out and then back into an
object.
