On Friday, February 7, 2014 10:53:48 AM UTC-5, Ismael VC wrote:
>
> I'd really love to see more examples in the manual, like Processing does:
>
> http://processing.org/reference/booleanconvert_.html
>
> For example Symbols! I've never encountered before, I'm not sure what they
> are and how to use them, or if Symbols are the same in every language that
> uses them?
>
Symbols are analogous to symbols in Scheme or Lisp (which are preceded with
' rather than : as in Julia). See e.g.
http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/symbols.html
http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/scheme/scheme7.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_%28programming%29
