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| author | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2022-08-16 21:21:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2022-08-16 21:24:40 -0400 |
| commit | 25bf556f9434f557171b040fc2945eacb112ba8c (patch) | |
| tree | 5663173a187e05f3c1d44b5cbdf19a404aa56991 /doc/syntax.md | |
| parent | 538a6ab05b070080642e751175425f38f6b33d8e (diff) | |
Document what programs and errors are
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diff --git a/doc/syntax.md b/doc/syntax.md index 292e6cc9..37d94dc2 100644 --- a/doc/syntax.md +++ b/doc/syntax.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ BQN syntax consists of expressions where computation is done, with a little organizing structure around them like assignment, functions, and list notation. Expressions are where the programmer is in control, so the design tries to do as much as possible with them before introducing special syntax. +A *program* is a unit of source code that's evaluated, such as a source file, or one line of REPL input (one run of the `bqn` executable often involves multiple programs). Like a [block](#blocks), it's a sequence of expressions to be evaluated in order. It has a result, which is used it the program was evaluated from BQN with `•BQN`, `•Import` or similar. An error might occur when a program is running; this ends execution unless it's [caught](assert.md#catch). + ## Precedence Here's a full table of precedence for BQN's glyphs (broader than "operator precedence", as an "operator" usually just corresponds to a function). Entries at the bottom make the biggest divisions in the program, while the ones further up are subdivisions. |