Clarify description of as
It's more of a foreach loop than an identity operation. Addresses issue #72.
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.realnames as $names | .posts[] | {title, author: $names[.author]}
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The expression "foo as $x" runs foo, puts the result in $x,
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and returns the original input. Apart from the side-effect
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of binding the variable, it has the same effect as ".".
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The expression `exp as $x | ...` means: for each value of expression
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`exp`, run the rest of the pipeline with the entire original input, and
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with `$x` set to that value. Thus `as` functions as something of a
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foreach loop.
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Variables are scoped over the rest of the expression that defines
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them, so
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