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[PATCH] Small fixes in doc/ref/srfi-modules.texi; a couple other questio
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[PATCH] Small fixes in doc/ref/srfi-modules.texi; a couple other questions |
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Fri, 2 May 2003 22:04:10 -0500 |
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See the patch at
http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/dist/guile-man-4S11.patch
First, a changelog. Then, some things I'm not clear on from reading
the manual:
2003-05-02 Stephen Compall <address@hidden>
* srfi-modules.texi (reduce): changed equivalent fold code to
match srfi-1.scm.
(filter): tied up hanging sentence.
(alist-copy): Emphasized difference with "normal" list-copy.
Various grammar fixes and a couple parenthesis closings.
Now, my questions, which you may or may not consider documentation
bugs:
^L
srfi-1: for-each: "each pair"...of what? You can pass more than two
lists.
^L
Documentation for access?: correct me if I'm wrong, but the subr
appears to use the libc `access' function. Here's what the GNU libc
manual says about that function:
`access' is _only_ only appropriate to use in setuid programs.
A non-setuid program will always use the effective ID rather than
the real ID.
See libc.info, node "Testing File Access", for the full story. This
is a caveat for the usage, if it really is only only appropriate for
setuid programs. But since the ruid == euid etc. in non-set?id
programs, I don't see the problem at first glance (though it could
conceivably cause problems in set?id programs :). It's just something
I remember.
^L
It looks like read (scm_read) should return eof-object if at
end-of-file. I believe the documentation should say that, and that
read-error occurs if there's another problem (though this may seem
obvious).
- --
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