Talk:Learning Petit Lesson 1: Getting Started and the Console/@comment-5334617-20141207182905/@comment-5334617-20141208050146

You're the one that first included a section that "may sometimes be confusing to learners" on the page, I was just following up. My comment was not directed to beginners, it was in answer to your sentence "As far as I know, [ ] is the only command that uses a semicolon" - it is not the only command that uses a semicolon.

Since you asked about quirks: there are many, and some which are more accurately called bugs. can silently fail, -0 (Numerical Value), 0.999995 (Numerical Value), and 524287.999755859375 (Numerical Value) are numbers that are handled improperly by the system, and User:SlackerPrime discovered that  malfunctions when some of its arguments are negative (http://petitcomputer.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:38788). allows a value of 12 for its first argument, for no apparently good reason. is a function, for absolutely no good reason. The second parameter to  cannot be larger than 5. has the logical sense of TRUE. 's operation is erratic - for instance, the strings " ", " ", and " " are interpreted like you expect, but " " gives the value 0. There are probably more...