misc tracking of unresolved issues/comments

[timotheecour]

• NFA macro + better NFA matcher nitely/nim-regex#58 (comment)
• performance comparison vs std/re, std/nre nitely/nim-regex#57

[timotheecour]

• --nimargs: eg choosenim 1.2.0 --nimargs -d:danger -d:nimEmulateOverflowChecks · Issue #190 · dom96/choosenim : --nimargs: eg choosenim 1.2.0 --nimargs -d:danger -d:nimEmulateOverflowChecks · Issue #190 · dom96/choosenim

[timotheecour]

• https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/13952/files#r407126554

this is a bug. it'll only run for nim c since that's what's in cmd.

[timotheecour]

1 branch per major.minor version
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/13907#issuecomment-612545166

[timotheecour]

since debate nim-lang#13920 (comment)

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#7508 (comment)

[timotheecour]

• getSelection
  Fix the getSelection method. nim-lang/Nim#13632 (comment)

this causes RT error Uncaught TypeError: a_2990031.$ is not a function

the bug is that it's inside a importcpp section so gets interpreted as such

[timotheecour]

• not nil documentation lying: docs: move not nil to the experimental page nim-lang/Nim#14027 (comment)

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#14190 (comment)
warningAsError:warnUnreachableElse:on

[timotheecour]

nim dump is roughly 100x slower in 1.3 versus 1.2 · Issue #14179 · nim-lang/Nim

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#14321 (comment) importc let tests

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#14331 (comment)

[timotheecour]

provide a JSON API · Issue #18 · PMunch/nim-playground-frontend

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#14126 (comment)

causes significant regressions in stack usage due to RVO not being applied even in safe cases (no exceptions involved) - the proposed fix is too aggressive!

[timotheecour]

nim-lang@d3b25a2#commitcomment-39878756

getCurrentExceptionMsg and getCurrentException() are available, they're just returning default values (instead of giving CT error or the actually exception string and exception).

[timotheecour]

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/15701/files#r511508506
actionRetry

why did you remove this? this was there for a good reason, reducing spurious git clone failures which used to happen a lot before this was added

EDIT: maybe also related:
Error: unhandled exception: D:\a\1\s\tools\deps.nim(6, 12) status == 0 git clone -q https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble.git D:\a\1\s\dist\nimble [AssertionDefect]

https://dev.azure.com/nim-lang/Nim/_build/results?buildId=9633&view=logs&jobId=8771bebc-ff97-51ac-1845-cb5b61e3bccd&j=8771bebc-ff97-51ac-1845-cb5b61e3bccd&t=74a5fa6a-7085-521f-3e7a-45825f3ff79f

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#15705 (comment)

can you explain the added c.freeTemp(dest) in genBinaryStmtVar, genBinaryStmt, genAsgn, nkDerefExpr etc ?

Not anymore but I did review the entire VM codegen looking for register allocator leaks. Apparently my work wasn't good enough. ;-)

[timotheecour]

yglukhov/nimpy#177 (comment)

[timotheecour]

honor --declaredLocs in more places, including type mismatch errors; also show kind with --declaredLocs by timotheecour · Pull Request #15673 · nim-lang/Nim
=> we should also honor --declaredLocs for cannot instantiate errors:

[timotheecour]

D20201030T193806 narimiran@26816d5#r43738252

nim-lang#15792 (comment)

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#8821 (comment)

[timotheecour]

refined-github/refined-github#3698 (comment)

[timotheecour]

Homebrew/brew#9120 (comment)
can you please re-open? I've edited OP and added brew config and brew doctor outputs

[timotheecour]

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/15421/files#r522703485

TODO for future PR:
this will show weird looking errors:
input ['1', '2', ',', '1', '.'] [ValueError]
instead of:
input "12,1." [ValueError]

I sent out nim-lang#15951 ; when this is merged we can revisit this using add

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#15994 (comment)
contributing.rst: multiple error msgs via nim check

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#16087 (comment)

tests/collections/tsets.nim
instead of
tests/collections/thashsets.nim

[timotheecour]

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/16016/files#r529855465
stderr.write on all backends

[timotheecour]

fix these:
Assignees TITLE: move tests to testament by xflywind · Pull Request #16101 · nim-lang/Nim

• use include because some symbols are not exported
• disable testing random module

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#16004 (comment)
std/sums => fusion/sums

[timotheecour]

nim-lang#16163 (comment)

improve on:

doAssert fileExists(test), test & " test does not exist"

in testament

[timotheecour]

• func doesn't check for side effects in proc parameters nim-lang/Nim#16303 (comment)

yes. nim-lang#10841 should be revisited and nim-lang#10838 should be fixed in a way than amounts to adding {.noSideEffect.}

[timotheecour]

• remove out mentions from manual_experimental.rst since nothing works
  removing out T from docs since it no longer working nim-lang/Nim#16378 (comment)

[timotheecour]

• Fix osproc so that it doesn't close pipe/process/thread handles twice nim-lang/Nim#16385 (review)

where does this magic h > 4 comes from? shouldn't that at least be h > 2 ?

[timotheecour]

https://github.com/nim-lang/fusion/pull/56/files#r546161354

• I think this should be ref object of JsRoot
• we also need to fix similar errors in stdlib:

lib/js/dom.nim:1213:28:  TouchList* {.importc.} = ref object of RootObj
lib/js/dom.nim:1293:26:  TimeOut* {.importc.} = ref object of RootObj
lib/js/jsconsole.nim:16:17:type Console* = ref object of RootObj
lib/js/jsffi.nim:87:15:  JsObject* = ref object of JsRoot
lib/js/jsffi.nim:89:27:  JsAssoc*[K: JsKey, V] = ref object of JsRoot

PR's welcome!

[ringabout]

• Add compile-time unrolled for loops
  Add compile-time unrolled for loops nim-lang/Nim#15456

[timotheecour]

• Avoid creating a holey array in makeNimstrLit for JS target nim-lang/Nim#16461 (comment)
  after that PR, code becomes slower on benchmark

the newer code is slower.

[timotheecour]

• https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/16480/files#r556247845 mimesLongest

[timotheecour]

• Transfer-Encoding:chunked tests by vabresto · Pull Request #16678 · nim-lang/Nim

For reference, I explained how to resolve this here: irclogs.nim-lang.org/13-01-2021.html#23:38:06

[timotheecour]

• [feature] Unicode support for \U********. nim-lang/Nim#16453 (comment)

[timotheecour]

• perpare for more compact bit operations in JS nim-lang/Nim#16728 (comment)

should this be arr: Float64Array or arr: var Float64Array ? I'm really not sure here since the type is ref, but really, Float64Array + friends act like seq, so var seems to make more sense here.

[timotheecour]

• https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/16807/files/560ef3a44f9c8f9ae0a0212baf5ae9567ee9238e#diff-949fbeaf84606faa8c27eb4619bb6f3b263ace4efedd31c9b0c65744459bc4ae

please (in followup PR) move this to the existing tests/stdlib/tjsonmacro.nim inside testJson which automatically tests in c, js, vm

[timotheecour]

• document semicolumn vs comma in fn[T; U: Ordinal]()
  refs fix floats slice nim-lang/Nim#16853 (comment)

[timotheecour]

• allow distinctBase for non distinct types refs https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/16864/files#r567009043

[timotheecour]

• reenable fidget refs fidget breaks nim CI again treeform/fidget#133 (comment)

[timotheecour]

• https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/16884/files#r567646940
  does

lineF(p, "$1 = nimCopy(null, $2, $3);$n",
               [a.rdLoc, b.res, genTypeInfo(p, y.typ)])

a few lines above also need to change to y.typ => x.typ?
(I don't know which one is correct)

[timotheecour]

• let's assume littleEndian in JS backend nim-lang/Nim#16886 (comment)
  future work:

• cross reference system.cpuEndians and std/endians (help welcome @konsumlamm)
• add tests/stdlib/tendians
• add tests for cpuEndian in c/js/vm
• add getEndian in std/endians as shown in let's assume littleEndian in JS backend nim-lang/Nim#16886 (comment) or make js code correct on little + big endian #515

[timotheecour]

• remove appendMoved refs std/lists: Various changes to lists (RFC #303) nim-lang/Nim#16536 (comment)

[timotheecour]

• nep1: decide on 1..3 vs 1 .. 3, refs fix lists docs regression nim-lang/Nim#16981 (comment)

[timotheecour]

• use blacklists, not whitelists
  refs strictFuncs+views: add test that imports stdlib modules nim-lang/Nim#16878 (comment)
  tests/test_nimscript.nims
  tests/effects/tstrict_funcs_imports.nim
  etc

[timotheecour]

• js foreign exception name

nim-lang#16998 (comment)

[SebTardif]

Homebrew/brew#9120 (comment) can you please re-open? I've edited OP and added brew config and brew doctor outputs

I don't understands this ticket 87 and why 9120 is closed because I do see the error: "Error: Too many open files" every month on WSL when running "brew upgrade". Should I open a new issue for "Error: Too many open files"?