Macron not explained in expressions tutorial
gitonthescene opened this issue · comments
I apologize if this is not the place for this type of commentary. Feel free to redirect me as appropriate.
I noticed that the use of a macron for a minus sign goes unexplained in the Expressions tutorial (unless I missed it. I did a few searches). For people coming from APL this isn’t a problem but depending on the target audience perhaps it deserves some mention.
I hope you find this observation useful.
Regards
Also, should this be “are applied to 3”?
Even worse, +˜ ÷ 3 looks just like +∘ ÷ 3, but it's two functions +˜ and ÷ applied to 3 while the version with Atop is a single function +∘÷ applied to 3.
FWIW, I’m a slow reader and so I get tripped up easily. I’m trying to turn it into a positive.
Very good point about ¯. I suppose I missed it because I didn't use it in source code there, but it should be explained in the first tutorial. It does get a mention on this documentation page (search for "high minus").
For the second point, I think this is fine: I'm saying the expression consists of functions applied to arguments. Note that "it's" has the apostrophe, making it "it is", not possessive.