Markup Formatting Reference: Experiment

Add an Experiment callout to a playground or to the Quick Help for a symbol using the Experiment delimiter. Multiple Experiment callouts appear in the description section in the same order as they do in the markup.

Provide a link to another playground page for complex experiments using the Named Page delimiter.

Works with:

✓ Playgrounds
✓ Symbol documentation

Syntax

```
* | + | - Experiment: description
```
```
optional continuation of description
```

The description displayed in Quick Help for the experiment callout is created as described in Parameters Section.

Playground Example

The example below shows a simple step by step experiment.

        /*:
  * Experiment:
  Find out if you are tasting your food or smelling it.
 
     1. Get a few different foods you like.
     2. Cut them up so they are all about the same size.
     3. Put them in a dish and mix them up.
     4. Close your eyes (no peeking!)
     5. Hold you nose and eat several pieces of food.
 
     Could you tell which food was which?
 */

      

Quick Help Example

The markup below adds three experiments to Quick Help as shown in the screenshot.

        /**
  An example of using the experiment field
 
  - Experiment: Pass in a string in the present tense
  - Experiment: Pass in a string with no vowels
  - Experiment:
  Change the third case statement to work only with consonants
 */

      

image: ../Art/MFR_symbol_field_experiment_2x.png