These are a few things I noticed while glancing over the document:

In section 3.1.2, the sequence \a is shown as evaluating to both NUL and BEL.  
Checking with quad AV, it appears that \0 will produce NUL and \a will produce 
BEL.

In the table in section 3.4.9, the definition of equal has three circles, which 
looks wrong.

In section 3.4.12, note that star-dieresis is the power operator, not the rank 
operator.  For an integer right operand it repeats the operation the specified 
number of times. (if the integer is negative, it applies the inverse operation 
the number of times given by the absolute value of the integer).  So

1 (○⍣3) X    or    1 ({circle}{star-dieresis} 3) X    is the sine of the sine 
of the sine of X,  1 (○⍣¯3)    or    1 ({circle}{star-dieresis} {negative}3) X  
is the arcsine of the arcsine of the arcsine of X, and so on.

Otherwise, I think that the quick tour is very nice.  It has plenty of good 
examples to illustrate how things work.  I also like the tables of functions 
and operators.  It can serve as a nice introduction to APL for beginners.

--- Brian McGuinness

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