From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>
Cc: 6851@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6851: Documentation: `make-hash-table' "add that many space"
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:39:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vd7eyqld.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikBVygEFVPcBjGvf4yw5qNjQvJH+RG67TBAjaF+@mail.gmail.com> (MON KEY's message of "Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:19:29 -0400")
MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com> writes:
> | :rehash-size REHASH-SIZE - Indicates how to expand the table when it
> | fills up. If REHASH-SIZE is an integer, add that many space. If it
> | is a float, it must be > 1.0, and the new size is computed by
> | multiplying the old size with that factor. Default is 1.5.
> Following sentence doesn't parse:
>
> "If REHASH-SIZE is an integer, add that many space."
> ^^^^ ^^^^^
> Even if what the author meant was:
>
> "If REHASH-SIZE is an integer, add that much space."
>
> it still won't yield a satisfactory parse b/c space isn't a term
> specified elsewhere in the doc so it isn't clear which space is being
> added to.
Thanks. I checked in a fix. The "number of spaces" is the nominal size
of the hash table, defined in the preceding part of the docstring.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-14 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-13 18:19 bug#6851: Documentation: `make-hash-table' "add that many space" MON KEY
2010-08-14 0:39 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-08-14 4:52 ` MON KEY
2010-08-14 21:14 ` Chong Yidong
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