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Numeric types documentation and rough corners

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some difficult cases in the language need explanation, http://nitlanguage.org/manual/basic_type.html leaves much open. ```print 1000*1000*1000``` results in ```-73741824``` on a 32bit system - this will be surprising for many programmers. I...

ghost

Calculator example bugs and improvements

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This may be the first example many people will look at so imho it deserves some love. Do you prefer very small grained PRs or dumping smaller things into this...

ghost

Stack allocation

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For performance purposes, small local objects are usually allocated on the stack to avoid putting pressure on the allocation mechanisms. In Nit however there is no such construction and all...

lbajolet

fixed_ints: Int32 division crash on overflow with niti

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I got an intern crash on that classic test for overflow. `print( (-2147483647i32 - 1i32) / -1i32 )`

PatrickBlanchette

Glitches in Android build system

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Hi, came across some glitches in 'nit/share/libgc/android-setup-libgc.sh' : * linux-x86_64 is hardcoded in the line 'path="$ANDROID_NDK/toolchains/$tools_dir/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/"' - does not work on 686 * gcc release version is hardcoded in the...

ghost

Calculator example on Android: font size problem

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Running 'scientific14.apk' on my Moto-G the letters on the buttons and the input/result line don't fit the available size. It looks like they might narrowly fit the space but are...

ghost

Update/autogenerate list of examples

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http://nitlanguage.org/examples/ points to only very few examples. Another few are relatively easy to find in NIT/examples and NIT/contrib Some very important examples though are hidden in lib/* - who would...

ghost

Switch statements for Nit

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I think Nit is lacking [switch statements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_statement), they would certainly be useful flow control structures. I'm wondering if the team would be open to introducing them, and if so I...

itsWill

nitdoc - No more stale documentation

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# nitdoc - No more stale documentation We group outdated, imprecise, incomplete and missing documentation under the stale documentation issue. ## TODO - [ ] **Documentation Checking** Help to generate...

Morriar

Remove a case that is unnecessary since PR #715 (in particular, see ). Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe Beaupré

jcbrinfo