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| author | s-ol <s+removethis@s-ol.nu> | 2021-01-02 22:32:12 +0000 |
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| committer | s-ol <s+removethis@s-ol.nu> | 2021-01-02 22:32:12 +0000 |
| commit | 5842ea9f374b40afb745dad7367a970f79d9f33e (patch) | |
| tree | c3d8d7cf15ec5bcaf3f9b8c75a29d9d9bfdf4f22 /docs/guide | |
| parent | docs/guide: fixes (diff) | |
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syntax: more whitelisted special chars, comment parsing
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/guide/07_defining-symbols.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/guide/07_defining-symbols.md b/docs/guide/07_defining-symbols.md index c25d34e..488270a 100644 --- a/docs/guide/07_defining-symbols.md +++ b/docs/guide/07_defining-symbols.md @@ -19,7 +19,13 @@ symbol `result`, and then refer to it by that symbol in the [trace][] operator: (def result (+ 1 2)) (trace result) -Symbols need to start with a letter or one of the characters `-_+*/.=~!?%`. +Symbols need to start with a letter or one of the following special characters: + + - + * / + _ . , = + ! ? % $ + > < ~ + After the first character, numbers are also allowed. There are two types of symbols that are treated specially: symbols containing a slash (`math/+`), and symbols starting and ending with asterisks (`*clock*`): |