Add old reference back

diff --git a/api.gmi b/api.gmi
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 API Notation is a language-agnostic notation to share the public API of components in code. It was created to standardize software specification documents in teams that need to review code across several languages.
 
 
 API Notation is a language-agnostic notation to share the public API of components in code. It was created to standardize software specification documents in teams that need to review code across several languages.
 

-The notation consists of one or more `definitions`, and `comments`
+```
+// Anything after two forward slashes is a comment
+NameOfClass.WithPossibleNamespace
+   + class property
+   - instance property
+  ~> listened events (socket)
+  +> listened events (class/module)
+  -> listened events (instance)
+  <~ dispatched events (socket)
+  <+ dispatched events(class/module)
+  <- dispatched events (instance)
+  :: class method
+   # instance method
+
+Other symbols
+  => returns
+  #> throws
+[xx] optional
+<xx> data type
+
+Recommended order: class first, then sockets, then instance. Internally:
+Properties, events, methods.
+```
+
+Or, with some examples:

 
 ```
 // Definitions start with object / module / class names, with namespaces
 
 ```
 // Definitions start with object / module / class names, with namespaces