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From: Stephen Compall <s11@member.fsf.org>
To: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] SRFI-69 support
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:24:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196915090.23906.12.camel@nocandy.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871wa03hi9.fsf@pobox.com>


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On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 23:26 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote:
> I know this is committed already (great work!), but perhaps you might be
> interested in some doc criticism:

Definitely!  Patch inline below.

> > +By @dfn{coarser} than @code{equal?}, I mean that for all @var{x} and

I changed this to "we" instead to avoid a passive or more awkward form
such as "Coarser than equal? means that..."


--- doc/ref/srfi-modules.texi	3 Dec 2007 12:36:12 -0000	1.75
+++ doc/ref/srfi-modules.texi	6 Dec 2007 04:19:22 -0000
@@ -3091,11 +3091,11 @@
 
 As a legacy of the time when Guile couldn't grow hash tables,
 @var{start-size} is an optional integer argument that specifies the
-approximate starting size for the hash table.  I will usually round
-this to an algorithmically-sounder number.
+approximate starting size for the hash table, which will be rounded to
+an algorithmically-sounder number.
 @end deffn
 
-By @dfn{coarser} than @code{equal?}, I mean that for all @var{x} and
+By @dfn{coarser} than @code{equal?}, we mean that for all @var{x} and
 @var{y} values where @code{(@var{equal-proc} @var{x} @var{y})},
 @code{(equal? @var{x} @var{y})} as well.  If that does not hold for
 your @var{equal-proc}, you must provide a @var{hash-proc}.


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-06  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-01 20:30 [patch] SRFI-69 support Stephen Compall
2007-12-01 20:36 ` Stephen Compall
2007-12-03 12:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-12-05 22:26 ` Andy Wingo
2007-12-06  4:24   ` Stephen Compall [this message]
2007-12-09 17:26     ` Ludovic Courtès

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