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DennisMitchell / jellylanguage

Jelly is a recreational programming language inspired by J.
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Missing condition in dyadic chain tutorial #4

Closed padarom closed 8 years ago

padarom commented 8 years ago

I have noticed that in the tutorial for Dyadic Chains there's an incomplete sentence in the section What's the starting value?:

Otherwise, if the chain starts with

I am not proficient enough in this language to know what this is supposed to say, so I can't fix it myself.

lynn commented 8 years ago

o_O

I actually forgot. I will get back to you when I remember. It sort of looks like just a scrapped line that you can just ignore, but I can't check right now.

CatsAreFluffy commented 8 years ago

Maybe if it starts with a nilad, start with the nilad?

padarom commented 8 years ago

Likely not, because it wouldn't be a dyadic chain to start with. It'd be covered by the "Niladic chains" section.

lynn commented 8 years ago

Okay, I fixed it. Dyadic chains can start with a leading constant! And indeed, the sentence was supposed to say that, if they do, you use that one and throw away the left argument initially.