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diff --git a/julia.html.markdown b/julia.html.markdown index e9d3a162..5ccd6484 100644 --- a/julia.html.markdown +++ b/julia.html.markdown @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -language: julia +language: Julia contributors: - ["Leah Hanson", "http://leahhanson.us"] filename: learnjulia.jl @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ filename: learnjulia.jl Julia is a new homoiconic functional language focused on technical computing. While having the full power of homoiconic macros, first-class functions, and low-level control, Julia is as easy to learn and use as Python. -This is based on the current development version of Julia, as of October 18th, 2013. +This is based on Julia 0.3. ```ruby -# Single line comments start with a number symbol. +# Single line comments start with a hash (pound) symbol. #= Multiline comments can be written by putting '#=' before the text and '=#' after the text. They can also be nested. @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ false # $ can be used for string interpolation: "2 + 2 = $(2 + 2)" # => "2 + 2 = 4" -# You can put any Julia expression inside the parenthesis. +# You can put any Julia expression inside the parentheses. # Another way to format strings is the printf macro. @printf "%d is less than %f" 4.5 5.3 # 5 is less than 5.300000 @@ -125,8 +125,9 @@ SomeOtherVar123! = 6 # => 6 # A note on naming conventions in Julia: # -# * Names of variables are in lower case, with word separation indicated by -# underscores ('\_'). +# * Word separation can be indicated by underscores ('_'), but use of +# underscores is discouraged unless the name would be hard to read +# otherwise. # # * Names of Types begin with a capital letter and word separation is shown # with CamelCase instead of underscores. @@ -189,7 +190,7 @@ end # inside the julia folder to find these files. # You can initialize arrays from ranges -a = [1:5] # => 5-element Int64 Array: [1,2,3,4,5] +a = [1:5;] # => 5-element Int64 Array: [1,2,3,4,5] # You can look at ranges with slice syntax. a[1:3] # => [1, 2, 3] @@ -263,7 +264,7 @@ in(("two", 3), filled_dict) # => false haskey(filled_dict, "one") # => true haskey(filled_dict, 1) # => false -# Trying to look up a non-existant key will raise an error +# Trying to look up a non-existent key will raise an error try filled_dict["four"] # => ERROR: key not found: four in getindex at dict.jl:489 catch e |