Janet M. Swisher wrote:
John Kane wrote:
Proposed addition to Getting Started with Calc (pg. 22) Section
Entering Numbers as text.
Explicitly declaring a variable as text does not mean that you cannot
perform arithmetic operations on it. It just means that the results will
be wrong.
I suggest recasting the first sentence without the double negative:
"If you explicitly declare a variable, you can still perform
arithmethic operations on it; however, the results of those operations
will not be what you might expect."
(I don't mean "double negative" in the sense of grammatically
incorrect ("I can't get no satisfaction") -- I just mean that two
negative clauses can be hard to understand.)
Oops, I hope it's obvious that I meant to rewrite that as:
If you explicitly declare a variable as text ...
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Janet Swisher --- Senior Technical Writer
Enthought, Inc. http://www.enthought.com
