Hi, I had a bug in some of my nim code and it produced some unusual behaviour.
It seems that the nim compiler assigns the result of a function before the said
function has completed. I managed to reproduce it:
import tables
var values:Table[string,string]
values["item 1"] = "this is item 1"
values["item 2"] = "this is item 2"
proc addItemToValues():Table[string,string] =
echo "values variable within function:"
echo values
values["item 3"] = "this is item 3"
echo "values variable before function:"
echo values
values = addItemToValues()
echo "values variable after function:"
echo values
Run
produces:
values variable before function:
{"item 1": "this is item 1", "item 2": "this is item 2"}
values variable within function:
{:}
values variable after function:
{"item 3": "this is item 3"}
Run
I wouldn't consider this a 'bug' in the compiler, because the code is written
incorrectly, but I am wondering if that is the intended behavior?
I seem to remember reading about this behavior somewhere, but for the life of
me I cant' find it.
