> I would love to be able to discovery the answer to the question I posted on > my own
When you will have used Nim at least for a few hours you will be able to do this. Most people start reading the official tutorial, there your question is already answered: > [https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut1.html#basic-types-type-conversion](https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut1.html#basic-types-type-conversion) Of course you may also read some of the other beginner docs, we have many now. And you may try to learn understanding Compiler messages, it told you what was wrong: got <int64> but expected proc sleep(milsecs: int) If you think that is not clear enough -- watch C++ gcc messages, maybe when you try to use CGAL lib with all its templates. That can be really confusing. But why do you want to use Nim at all when you are happy with Smalltalk and Python? My observation is, that from time to time some people with only some basic Python (or similar beginner language like Basic dialects) knowledge come to Nim, ask some questions, and vanish again after a few weeks. I do not really know why they come, and why they vanish. I have a few suspicions, but not many facts. In case you want to continue to use Nim, you may also consider using IRC or some of its GUI clients like Gitter, many beginner use that channel to get fast help for questions.
