[filwit]

Err... what you said just reminded me of something, and I realized all the code I just showed you is really over-complicated and that Nim has much more straight forward options using `const`, like this:

  static:
    # define a compile-time list first
    var names = newSeq[string]()
    
    # add some values (at compile-time)
    names.add("foo")
    names.add("bar")

  # define the compiler vars as run-time const
  const runtimeNames = names

  # define some run-time variables
  var name1 = "foo"
  var name2 = "blah"

  # check runtime variables against const variable
  if runtimeNames.contains(name1): echo "Has Foo!"
  if runtimeNames.contains(name2): echo "Has Blah!"

Sorry about the rather winded (and bad example) replys :| But thanks for the conversation, it reminded me of this and now I have some cleaning up of my own code to get too. Cheers!