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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/syntax.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/types.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/doc/manual/syntax.txt b/doc/manual/syntax.txt index 4f7483be8..74bf7e3c9 100644 --- a/doc/manual/syntax.txt +++ b/doc/manual/syntax.txt @@ -19,10 +19,8 @@ other binary operators are left-associative. proc `^/`(x, y: float): float = # a right-associative division operator result = x / y - echo 12 ^/ 4 ^/ 8 # 24.0 (4 / 8 = 0.5, then - 12 / 0.5 = 24.0) - echo 12 / 4 / 8 # 0.375 (12 / 4 = 3.0, then - 3 / 8 = 0.375) + echo 12 ^/ 4 ^/ 8 # 24.0 (4 / 8 = 0.5, then 12 / 0.5 = 24.0) + echo 12 / 4 / 8 # 0.375 (12 / 4 = 3.0, then 3 / 8 = 0.375) Precedence ---------- diff --git a/doc/manual/types.txt b/doc/manual/types.txt index 4c015ffb7..b50da584d 100644 --- a/doc/manual/types.txt +++ b/doc/manual/types.txt @@ -435,7 +435,9 @@ has the same type. Arrays always have a fixed length which is specified at compile time (except for open arrays). They can be indexed by any ordinal type. A parameter ``A`` may be an *open array*, in which case it is indexed by integers from 0 to ``len(A)-1``. An array expression may be constructed by the -array constructor ``[]``. +array constructor ``[]``. The element type of this array expression is +inferred from the type of the first element. All other elements need to be +implicitly convertable to this type. Sequences are similar to arrays but of dynamic length which may change during runtime (like strings). Sequences are implemented as growable arrays, @@ -460,6 +462,8 @@ Example: x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] # [] is the array constructor y = @[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] # the @ turns the array into a sequence + let z = [1.0, 2, 3, 4] # the type of z is array[0..3, float] + The lower bound of an array or sequence may be received by the built-in proc ``low()``, the higher bound by ``high()``. The length may be received by ``len()``. ``low()`` for a sequence or an open array always returns |