
Basic Dylan FAQ updated and available for review
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> > A basic and forming Dylan FAQ is available at
> > http://www.geocities.com/dylan_programmer/FAQ.html. Please review it.
> It's great to see someone getting this going!
> The GeoCities ads are truly annoying ...
If you read the info about them, they "fold up" after a short time, and you
can always dismiss them by clicking on the "X" button. Better than animated
banner ads, I think!
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> I think the first question should be "What is Dylan?". I can't
> tell you how many times I've gone to a FAQ where only had a
> vague idea of what the "product" was, and the FAQ didn't explain
> it. You could probably steal the answer from either the Gwydion
> or Fun-O site.
Actually, I pointed a (busy and non-Dylan aware) friend to the Fun-O site
and he said he quickly gave up because there wasn't any front-page "What
is Dylan?" blurb. There *is* an "About Dylan" link, though, so maybe he
was just too lazy/busy ;-)
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> Another "gotcha" could be that you can't initialize a limited
> sequence directly. ... I think the best one can do is:
> define constant foo :: <int-vector> = make(<int-vector>, size: 3);
> for (i from 0 below 3)
> foo[i] := #[1, 2, 3][i];
> end;
I'd do
define constant foo :: <int-vector> = as(<int-vector>, #[1, 2, 3]);
At least, I *think* that works.
Hugh