Re: Help improve Revolution's documentation

[Judy Perry]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Philippe Lestang wrote:
> BTW in the excellent Dany Goodman's book, there are, at least in the
> edition I have (2.0), important things missing:
>
> - The notion of function is not well explained (DG speaks mainly of
> built-in functions, which is something different, in my view). I

My Goodman manual (2.2) begins by explaining that commands provoke or
commence action whereas a function (built-in or otherwise) evaluates an
argument (say, the current status of some entity such as the clock) and
returns a result/tells you what that status is but doesn't make any
changes/action.

I am interested in your understanding of this paragraph -- does it seem
unclear and if so, how?

(Why do I care?  Because I have to create stacks explaining simple HC
scripting and, maybe someday, do the same for MC).

Regards,
Judy Perry