Comment by jibal

You're completely missing the point of this casual example in a blog post ... as evidenced by the fact that you omitted the type definition that preceded it, that is the whole point of the example. That it's not the best possible example is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the compiler can type check the code at the point of definition, not just at the point of instantiation.

And FWIW there are many possible types for T, as small integer constants are compatible with many types. And because of the "proc `<=`(a, b: Self): bool" in the concept definition of Fibable, the compiler knows that "2" is a constant of type T ... so any type that has a conversion proc for literals (remember that Nim has extensive compile-time metaprogramming features) can produce a value of its type given "2".