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Actually—I think you did explain properly. I must confess that I jumped into the sandbox before reading the documentation, and then I only checked the documenta

by mkdir 14y ago

Actually—I think you did explain properly. I must confess that I jumped into the sandbox before reading the documentation, and then I only checked the documentation when ran into behavior I didn't expect. I do think the semicolon behavior is a bit confusing. The documentation explains that expressions aren't auto-returned if they're followed by a semicolon, but I don't think that quite covers the behavior I pointed out. I might be missing something else from the documentation, though... Also, I found one more major issue. Your documentation uses the numeric literal "3.1415" in the explanation for named parameters. That really needs to be "3.1416". :P

Udo 14y ago
> I do think the semicolon behavior is a bit confusing. I agree. Regarding the named params, the example is: f 3.1415 #name:"I'm using a named param!"; where 3.1415 is an unnamed parameter, and the 3rd line contains the named part. I'm probably showing too many things at once here. Also, there are definitely a few bugs still to iron out!
- mkdir 14y ago
  Regarding "3.1415", I was simply passive-aggressively pointing out that if you're referencing pi, you should probably round up to "3.1416". The example itself made sense!
  - Udo 14y ago
    Ah, I'm so dense! Sure, there is also "math.pi" as a built-in for that. (And I fixed this grave rounding error) I also discovered a scope problem with the recursion example you gave. Turns out, there is (of course) a major bug in there, thanks for discovering that. It's about the visibility of the "factorial" symbol itself, so the workaround is for now: factorial = { n | factorial = outer.factorial; if(n == 0) { 1 } { n * (factorial (n - 1)) } }; println (factorial 5); At least, until I restart the service (which I don't want to do while everyone is potentially using the tutorial).

by mkdir 14y ago

Udo 14y ago

> I do think the semicolon behavior is a bit confusing. I agree. Regarding the named params, the example is: f 3.1415 #name:"I'm using a named param!"; where 3.1415 is an unnamed parameter, and the 3rd line contains the named part. I'm probably showing too many things at once here. Also, there are definitely a few bugs still to iron out!

mkdir 14y ago
Regarding "3.1415", I was simply passive-aggressively pointing out that if you're referencing pi, you should probably round up to "3.1416". The example itself made sense!
- Udo 14y ago
  Ah, I'm so dense! Sure, there is also "math.pi" as a built-in for that. (And I fixed this grave rounding error) I also discovered a scope problem with the recursion example you gave. Turns out, there is (of course) a major bug in there, thanks for discovering that. It's about the visibility of the "factorial" symbol itself, so the workaround is for now: factorial = { n | factorial = outer.factorial; if(n == 0) { 1 } { n * (factorial (n - 1)) } }; println (factorial 5); At least, until I restart the service (which I don't want to do while everyone is potentially using the tutorial).