Clarify the sense in which Nim supports recursive iterators in docs #15834
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manual, the tutorial, and the `tbintree` test.
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Tagging @mratsim who might have a critique on language used. The simplest possible language may be "but Nim supports recursive iterator factories which are good enough/better via explicitness", but that only makes sense after someone understands iterator factories. Also, the CI failure is just some |
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Also, if you want, we could make the |
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Good enough for me. |
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Fix manual, tutorial, and
tbintreetest comments to not mislead so much about lack of recursive iterator support. This has confused quite few people over the years.See cblake & others comments in (at least!):
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7020
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6649
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6393
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/5047
but probably more and probably a lot in the IRC as well.