[r2003-07-08 09:32:55 by cvscast] Empty log message

Original author: cvscast
Date: 2003-07-08 09:33:52+00:00

web/tutorial/first_functions.xml

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ when static-typing enforces this property.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-These first examples already show the essence of \cduce's patterns: all a pattern
+These first examples already show the essence of CDuce's patterns: all a pattern
 can do is to decompose values into subcomponents that are either captured
 by a variable or checked against a type.
 </p>
@@ -123,13 +123,13 @@ let domain (Email->String) <_>[ _*?  d::(Echar+ '.' Echar+) ] -> d
 ]]></sample>
 <p>
 returns the last two parts of the domain of an e-mail (the <code>*?</code>
-is an ungreedy version of <code>*</code>, see ??????).
+is an ungreedy version of <code>*</code>, see <a href="tutorial_patterns.html#pre">regular expressions patterns</a>).
 If these ::-captures are used <i>inside</i> the scope of the regular expression
 operators <code>*</code> or <code>+</code>, or if the same variable
 appears several times in a regular expression,
 then the variable is bound to
 the concatenation of all the corresponding matches. This is one of the
-distinctive and powerful characteristics of \duce{}, since it allows to
+distinctive and powerful characteristics of CDuce, since it allows to
 define patterns that in a single match capture subsequences of
 non-consecutive elements. For instance:
 </p>
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ let agendaitem (Person -> PhoneItem)
 <p>
 transforms a <code>person</code> element into a record value with two fields containing
 the element's name and the list of all the phone numbers. This is
-obtained thanks to the pattern <code>(t::Tel\;|\;_)*</code> that binds to <code>t</code> the
+obtained thanks to the pattern <code>(t::Tel | _)*</code> that binds to <code>t</code> the
 sequence of all <code>Tel</code> elements appearing in the person. By the same rationale the pattern
 </p>
 <sample><![CDATA[
@@ -173,9 +173,9 @@ modifications. It suffices to use a pattern regular expression to strip off
 the possible occurrence of a dash:
 </p>
 <sample><![CDATA[
-let agendaitem2 (Person -> \{name=String; phones=[Int*]\})
+let agendaitem2 (Person -> {name=String; phones=[Int*]})
   <person>[ <name>n  _  (t::Tel|_)* ] ->
-      \{ name = n; phones = map t with <tel>[(s::'0'--'9'|_)*] -> int_of s \}
+      { name = n; phones = map t with <tel>[(s::'0'--'9'|_)*] -> int_of s }
 ]]></sample>
 <p>
 In this case <code>s</code> extracts the subsequence formed only by numerical