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Prop Manual errata submits ?

Don PomplunDon Pomplun Posts: 116
edited 2006-06-24 04:16 in Propeller 1
Is there an appropriate place to submit errata discovered in the Prop documentation? Not just the simple typos, but stuff that is wrong that snuck past the proofreaders?
Waiting for the elusive Chapter 3, I'm reading 1, 2 and, now, 4 very carefully (in hard copy!) so as not to miss anything.
"Case" in point: page 4-21, the CASE statement example starts out as testing X+Y, but the comments talk only about X. This gets cleared up later down the page in the narrative, but with some of the new (to me) syntax of some statements, you could puzzle a while over what turns out to be a flub.
-- Don

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  • MuncherMuncher Posts: 38
    edited 2006-06-24 01:39
    Well, why don't you tell everyone about it right here?
  • Don PomplunDon Pomplun Posts: 116
    edited 2006-06-24 02:06
    Well, being new to the Prop Society, I figured that by now there might already be such a compilation and wouldn't want to rehash old ground.
    -- Don
  • SSteveSSteve Posts: 808
    edited 2006-06-24 03:17
    Send corrections to editor <at> parallax (dot) com.

    I already let them know about the one you mentioned.

    There isn't an errata yet. I think they're putting all their efforts into version 1 of the manual. Now is the time to submit corrections, though, before version 1 is sent to the printer.

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  • GoogGoog Posts: 65
    edited 2006-06-24 04:16
    One other note about CASE... the manual doesn't touch on it, but during the CASE evaluation, you can do the following with commas as well:

    Case X
      1, 2, 5:
        'X = either 1, 2, or 5...
     
      7, 12:
        'X = 7 or 12...
     
    

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