From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Matt Wette <matthew.wette@verizon.net>
Cc: 22601@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22601: guile.texi section on ice-9 match
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 13:38:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9awq04z.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D066C02-3ABF-41C4-BB8A-113A4A6086BA@verizon.net> (Matt Wette's message of "Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:04:20 -0800")
On Mon 08 Feb 2016 22:04, Matt Wette <matthew.wette@verizon.net> writes:
> One problem I have with the ref’ manual is the section on (ice-9
> match). The grammar has terms like “string” where I don’t know if
> this means the literal term “string” or a string literal. It would be
> nicer to have a grammar where the literal term “string” is in
> code-case and a string literal is described by “string” in italics. I
> have worked on rewriting the match match grammar as @example and as
> @table.
>
> Does either of these look better to you? See the PDF attached. I am
> willing to complete the whole mess in another format, but I need to
> know which one is preferred, if any, and someone has to verify that
> the new grammar specification is accurate.
Would you mind attaching a .texi diff? I am having trouble getting
context here. Thanks :)
Andy
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2016-02-08 21:04 ` bug#22601: guile.texi section on ice-9 match Matt Wette
2016-08-07 11:38 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
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