Re: A small typo in the docs

[Eric Blake]

Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo1980 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi!While reading the m4 documentation (www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual, last 
update on April 02, 2008) I found a small typographical error. In section 1.2 
Historical References, there is an allusion to Christopher Strachey. His name 
was erroneously written as Stratchey. The same mistake can be seen in section 
4.2.This surely ain't the most adequate place for this kind of stuff.Hope it 
helps anyway.
> 

Thanks for the report; and this is absolutely the right place to report it.

Wikipedia has the same bug (perhaps cribbing a bit too much text from m4's 
manual?): search for M4 on the page 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Strachey

At any rate, the bug has been present as far back as the CVS records go (m4 
1.3, more than 14 years ago).

I'm applying this, although you'll have to wait until M4 1.6 before the web 
pages get updated to match:

>From 05528e98e0257bcccbb5001b8ff09293e42d19b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:27:01 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fix spelling of attribution to Christopher Strachey.

* doc/m4.texinfo (History, Inhibiting Invocation): Fix typo.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Fernando Carrijo.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
---
 ChangeLog      |    7 +++++++
 THANKS         |    1 +
 doc/m4.texinfo |    4 ++--
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 58abd2d..8a29282 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-04-21  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
+
+       Fix spelling of attribution to Christopher Strachey.
+       * doc/m4.texinfo (History, Inhibiting Invocation): Fix typo.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+       Reported by Fernando Carrijo.
+
 2008-04-17  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
 
        Fix buildbot failure.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 8d0aae1..eb2a79d 100644
diff --git a/doc/m4.texinfo b/doc/m4.texinfo
index cefadfe..05b349f 100644
--- a/doc/m4.texinfo
+++ b/doc/m4.texinfo
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ debugging their @code{m4} scripts than doing real work.  
Beware that
 @cindex history of @code{m4}
 @cindex @acronym{GNU} M4, history of
 @code{GPM} was an important ancestor of @code{m4}.  See
-C. Stratchey: ``A General Purpose Macro generator'', Computer Journal
+C. Strachey: ``A General Purpose Macro generator'', Computer Journal
 8,3 (1965), pp.@: 225 ff.  @code{GPM} is also succinctly described into
 David Gries classic ``Compiler Construction for Digital Computers''.
 
@@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@ with no arguments.
 @section Preventing macro invocation
 
 An innovation of the @code{m4} language, compared to some of its
-predecessors (like Stratchey's @code{GPM}, for example), is the ability
+predecessors (like Strachey's @code{GPM}, for example), is the ability
 to recognize macro calls without resorting to any special, prefixed
 invocation character.  While generally useful, this feature might
 sometimes be the source of spurious, unwanted macro calls.  So, @acronym{GNU}
-- 
1.5.5