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authorIan Bertolacci <ian.bertolacci@gmail.com>2018-07-23 09:20:21 -0700
committerIan Bertolacci <ian.bertolacci@gmail.com>2018-07-23 09:20:21 -0700
commita52115be2f1ed9c9a943f1acdcc22d821a37e57b (patch)
tree2092e65986721b5b983f94002c669c28bd43ac92
parent0d211d341913305bd1d97e5d097898eb7faa1354 (diff)
Make version agnostic
-rw-r--r--chapel.html.markdown16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/chapel.html.markdown b/chapel.html.markdown
index 9190f462..346eccb2 100644
--- a/chapel.html.markdown
+++ b/chapel.html.markdown
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ writeln(varCmdLineArg, ", ", constCmdLineArg, ", ", paramCmdLineArg);
// be made to alias a variable other than the variable it is initialized with.
// Here, refToActual refers to actual.
var actual = 10;
-ref refToActual = actual;
+ref refToActual = actual;
writeln(actual, " == ", refToActual); // prints the same value
actual = -123; // modify actual (which refToActual refers to)
writeln(actual, " == ", refToActual); // prints the same value
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ arrayFromLoop = [value in arrayFromLoop] value + 1;
// Procedures
-// Chapel procedures have similar syntax functions in other languages.
+// Chapel procedures have similar syntax functions in other languages.
proc fibonacci(n : int) : int {
if n <= 1 then return n;
return fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2);
@@ -1141,11 +1141,13 @@ to see if more topics have been added or more tutorials created.
Your input, questions, and discoveries are important to the developers!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-The Chapel language is still in-development (version 1.16.0), so there are
+The Chapel language is still in active development, so there are
occasional hiccups with performance and language features. The more information
you give the Chapel development team about issues you encounter or features you
-would like to see, the better the language becomes. Feel free to email the team
-and other developers through the [sourceforge email lists](https://sourceforge.net/p/chapel/mailman).
+would like to see, the better the language becomes.
+There are several ways to interact with the developers:
++ [sourceforge email lists](https://sourceforge.net/p/chapel/mailman).
++ [Gitter chat](https://gitter.im/chapel-lang/chapel)
If you're really interested in the development of the compiler or contributing
to the project, [check out the master GitHub repository](https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel).
@@ -1158,8 +1160,8 @@ Chapel can be built and installed on your average 'nix machine (and cygwin).
[Download the latest release version](https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/releases/)
and it's as easy as
- 1. `tar -xvf chapel-1.16.0.tar.gz`
- 2. `cd chapel-1.16.0`
+ 1. `tar -xvf chapel-<VERSION>.tar.gz`
+ 2. `cd chapel-<VERSION>`
3. `source util/setchplenv.bash # or .sh or .csh or .fish`
4. `make`
5. `make check # optional`