character documentation errors

* character documentation errors
@ 2004-11-01  0:30 Bruce Korb
  2004-11-04 17:06 ` Marius Vollmer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Korb @ 2004-11-01  0:30 UTC (permalink / raw)

> guile>  (char? #\sp)
> ERROR: In procedure scm_lreadr:
> ERROR: unknown # object
> ABORT: (misc-error)
> guile> ERROR: In procedure scm_lreadr:
> ERROR: unexpected ")"
> ABORT: (misc-error)
> guile>  (char? #\space)
> #t
> guile> (version)
> "1.6.5"
> 
> 21.3 Characters
> ===============
> 
> Most of the characters in the ASCII character set may be referred to by
> name: for example, `#\tab', `#\esc', `#\stx', and so on.  The following
> table describes the ASCII names for each character.
> 
> 0 = `#\nul'        1 = `#\soh'        2 = `#\stx'        3 = `#\etx'
> 4 = `#\eot'        5 = `#\enq'        6 = `#\ack'        7 = `#\bel'
> 8 = `#\bs'         9 = `#\ht'         10 = `#\nl'        11 = `#\vt'
> 12 = `#\np'        13 = `#\cr'        14 = `#\so'        15 = `#\si'
> 16 = `#\dle'       17 = `#\dc1'       18 = `#\dc2'       19 = `#\dc3'
> 20 = `#\dc4'       21 = `#\nak'       22 = `#\syn'       23 = `#\etb'
> 24 = `#\can'       25 = `#\em'        26 = `#\sub'       27 = `#\esc'
> 28 = `#\fs'        29 = `#\gs'        30 = `#\rs'        31 = `#\us'
> 32 = `#\sp'                                              
> 
>    The `delete' character (octal 177) may be referred to with the name
> `#\del'.

It goes on to say that ``#\space'' is an alias for ``#\sp''.
Please fix the doc to reflect exactly what is acceptable.
Thank you! - Bruce

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