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diff --git a/docs/doc/array.html b/docs/doc/array.html index ec4eab33..827f05c0 100644 --- a/docs/doc/array.html +++ b/docs/doc/array.html @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <div class="nav">(<a href="https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN">github</a>) / <a href="../index.html">BQN</a> / <a href="index.html">doc</a></div> <h1 id="the-array"><a class="header" href="#the-array">The array</a></h1> <p>As BQN is an array language, it's often helpful to understand what an array is when writing BQN programs. Fully describing the concept is sometimes <a href="https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/array.htm">held to be tricky</a>; here we'll see definitions, examples, and metaphors.</p> -<p>In BQN, as in APL, arrays are multidimensional, instead of strictly linear. Languages like Python, Javascript, or Haskell offer only one-dimensional arrays with <code><span class='Value'>[]</span></code> syntax, and typically represent multidimensional data with nested arrays. Multidimensional arrays have fundamental differences relative to this model.</p> +<p>In BQN, as in APL, arrays are multidimensional, instead of strictly linear. Languages like Python, Javascript, or Haskell offer only one-dimensional arrays with <code><span class='Bracket'>[]</span></code> syntax, and typically represent multidimensional data with nested arrays. Multidimensional arrays have fundamental differences relative to this model.</p> <p>BQN's arrays are immutable, meaning that an array is entirely defined by its attributes, and there is no way to modify an existing array, only to produce another array that has changes relative to it. As a result, an array can never contain itself, and arrays form an inductive type. BQN's <a href="lexical.html#mutation">mutable</a> types are operations and namespaces.</p> <p>An array might also have a <a href="fill.html">fill element</a> that captures some structural information about its elements and is used by a few operations. The fill, as an inferred property, isn't considered to truly be part of the array but is instead some information about the array that the interpreter keeps track of. So it's out of scope here.</p> <svg viewBox='-36 -15 544 426'> |