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Expand Up @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Let's define a table representing a group of students
"Yang" 19 "Physics" 3.2
"Lisa" 19 "Comp Sci" 3.9]

This code creates a table called `students`, which is global in scope as denoted by the hashtag `#`. The table has three columns (`name`, `age`, and `gpa`) and three rows. Number values don't distinguish between integer and floating point representations, which can be mixed freely.
This code creates a table called `students`, which is global in scope as denoted by the hashtag `#`. The table has four columns (`name`, `age`, `major`, and `gpa`) and three rows. Number values don't distinguish between integer and floating point representations, which can be mixed freely.

Mech programs are composed of "blocks" of code like the one above. A block is indented from normal text with (at least) two spaces, and continues until the next non-indented paragraph. Each block of code can do three things:

Expand All @@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ Within a block, expressions are computed in the order they are written, as with

Since th GPA changed, every block that depends on this GPA will update as well. This is the essence of a dataflow language; although we cannot specify control flow as in an imperative language, we can specify the data, and this in turn causes execution to happen as defined by the data dependencies of blocks.

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