Document core autocons

[courajs]

Found in the wild: https://github.com/Fang-/djay/blob/261766af0383eaa6f1e168b6c4c06da69a64175e/app/djay.hoon

[anonymous]> yeah, it gets treated as equivalent to => |% ... -- |_ ... --

Not mentioned in the bar rune reference or the irregular form reference.

[ohAitch]

Nor the ford reference? This isn't specific to bar runes

On Wednesday, 17 April 2019, Aaron Sikes [email protected] wrote:

Found in the wild: https://github.com/Fang-/djay/blob/ 261766af0383eaa6f1e168b6c4c06da69a64175e/app/djay.hoon

~palfun-foslup> yeah, it gets treated as equivalent to => |% ... -- |_ ...

Not mentioned in the bar rune reference https://urbit.org/docs/reference/hoon-expressions/rune/bar/ or the irregular form reference https://urbit.org/docs/reference/hoon-expressions/irregular/.

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[rmariani]

Thanks for catching this, I will look into it.

[baudtack]

@Fang- Is this only a thing in gall apps?

[Fang-]

Not sure, but would be surprised if it's special-cased like that. Probably just a compiler thing?

[ohAitch]

Yes, the ford parser effectively wraps the whole file in a =~ ... ==

[belisarius222]

@ohAitch is correct. This is behavior specific to the Ford parser, not a compiler feature. If you're writing a file that Ford does not compile, such as a vane, you have to have a single Hoon expression instead of a list of them.