Clarify description of as

It's more of a foreach loop than an identity operation.

Addresses issue #72.
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jkleint committed 2013-01-25 12:17:56 -05:00
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@@ -953,10 +953,11 @@ sections:
.realnames as $names | .posts[] | {title, author: $names[.author]}
The expression "foo as $x" runs foo, puts the result in $x,
and returns the original input. Apart from the side-effect
of binding the variable, it has the same effect as ".".
The expression `exp as $x | ...` means: for each value of expression
`exp`, run the rest of the pipeline with the entire original input, and
with `$x` set to that value. Thus `as` functions as something of a
foreach loop.
Variables are scoped over the rest of the expression that defines
them, so