Re: [julia-users] 'do' notation in documentation?

2016-04-18 Thread Tomas Lycken
If you'd like to share that document, it would be a valuable resource for others as well when trying to help out. It's not unlikely that at least a subset of the things in your list are things that are present (and perhaps even quite extensively so) in the documentation, but explained in a way

Re: [julia-users] 'do' notation in documentation?

2016-04-17 Thread Andrew Gibb
I have a little document which I add to periodically called "Julia unsearchables" where I note down which things can't be found in the docs without asking someone. I do hope, once my Thesis is done, that I can contribute it to the documentation.

Re: [julia-users] 'do' notation in documentation?

2016-04-17 Thread Eric Forgy
Hi Andreas, I don't know how to improve the documentation, but I was also confused by the "do" notation. It seemed kind of mysterious to me at first. Now, I think I got it and use it often. Basically, it is a nice way to rewrite a function whose FIRST argument is a function. For example, say

Re: [julia-users] 'do' notation in documentation?

2016-04-17 Thread Kevin Squire
Hello, Andreas, see: http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/functions/#do-block-syntax-for-function-arguments Cheers, Kevin On Sunday, April 17, 2016, Andreas Lobinger wrote: > Hello colleagues, > > although it's around and found in some/many lines, where is

[julia-users] 'do' notation in documentation?

2016-04-17 Thread Andreas Lobinger
Hello colleagues, although it's around and found in some/many lines, where is actually the documentation of the 'do' notation. I'm sitting here, trying to debug a Pkg problem and the lines cd("METADATA") do something end give me some problems in understanding. While it's obviously some kind