OpenEuphoria

1. So who cares if there's a grammar mistake in refman.doc?

• Posted by Alan Tu <ATU5713 at COMPUSERVE.COM> Aug 03, 1998
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• Last edited Aug 04, 1998

Occasionally, I read through the reference manual to gain new insights on=

Euphoria.  For example, I just found out that there's a command_line()
function.  Well, there's a grammar mistake I'd like to point out.  In
Section 2.1, of the (yes, its v2.0) manual, the following paragraph
contains an error.  "An better" is supposed to be "A better".  But who
cares anyway?

[snip]
 Why do we call them "atoms"? Why not just "numbers"? Well, an atom *is*
just a =

 number, but we wanted to have a distinctive term that emphasizes that th=
ey
are =

 indivisible. Of course in the world of physics, atoms were split into
smaller
 parts many years ago, but in Euphoria you can't split them. They are the=

basic
 building blocks of all the data that a Euphoria program can manipulate.
With =

 this analogy, sequences might be thought of as "molecules", made from
atoms =


 and other molecules. An better analogy would be that sequences are like =

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 directories, and atoms are like files. Just as a directory on your
computer =

 can contain both files and other directories, a sequence can contain bot=
h =

atoms and other sequences (and *those* sequences can contain atoms and =

 sequences and so on). =


For what its worth (which isn't much),

Alan
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