Documentation, Examples, and Readme's #1

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1. jsonnull commented on Mar 6, 2017

   

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   Hey @rattrayalex

   Regarding "better now example in docs"—I'll probably do a pass at reviewing the current reference docs as a whole.

   Along those lines: since there will be a separate, guided introduction to the language as a whole, there could be room to trim down the reference docs to be especially concise but still illustrative.
2. rattrayalex commented on Mar 6, 2017

   

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   Cool – although in the case of now, I'm actually going to revise the language itself to guide users more directly instead (shadowing with implicit const shouldn't be allowed, it's too confusing and too likely to result in accidents).
3. jsonnull commented on Mar 7, 2017

   

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   Hmm how's that going to work?
4. rattrayalex commented on Mar 7, 2017

   

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   let someVar
   if someCond:
     someVar = 1
   // SyntaxError: `someVar` is shadowed from a higher scope. If you want to reassign the variable, use `now someVar = ...`. If you want to declare a new shadowed `const` variable, you must use `const someVar = ...` explicitly. 
   

   Something like that 😉 let's move discussion to Gitter? Just created an org: https://gitter.im/lightscript/Lobby