Command: -->

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Name:
 --> - longrightarrow, usually delayed comparison
Synopsis:
 --> -> /-->
Description:
  The symbol --> is used in the example sections of the NEST 
  documentation to indicate the transformation an operator 
  performs to its arguments. The SLI operator --> is defined 
  to just reproduce itself. This enables NEST to evaluate the 
  example sections as regular SLI code. As a result, the arguments
  of the documented operator and its results are separated by 
  the literaal /-->. A parser for infix notation can then apply
  the documented operator to the values on the left side of -->
  and compare the results to the values on the right side of -->
Examples:
 
    [8 --> 6] --> 8 /--> cvx exec 6  3 arraystore
Author:
 Diesmann
FirstVersion:
 080506
Remarks:
 
  The idea of --> is to contribute to a notation for test driven
  programming and user documentation which keeps the syntactic 
  clutter at a minimum.
SeeAlso:makehelp helpdesk EvaluateLiteralInfixes
Source:
 /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/nest-2.4.1/lib/sli/helpinit.sli

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