#908 closed enhancement (fixed)
Define uninterned symbols in the manual
| Reported by: | Ivan Raikov | Owned by: | felix winkelmann |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 4.9.0 |
| Component: | documentation | Version: | 4.8.x |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
The Chicken manual lists procedures gensym, string->uninterned-symbol and symbol-append under section "Generating uninterned symbols" but never explains what uninterned symbols are. It would be helpful if somebody who is familiar with the internals of Chicken writes a paragraph or two on what uninterned symbols are and about the implications of their use. Furthermore, although symbol-append is listed under that section, its documentation says that it generates a "new interned symbol", so perhaps it should be moved to a different section.
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comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by
| Owner: | set to felix winkelmann |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
Changed 13 years ago by
| Attachment: | Unit-library-symbols-section.diff added |
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comment:2 follow-up: 3 Changed 13 years ago by
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by
This looks good. There are a couple of misspellings: "and so mulitple symbols" should become "and so multiple symbols" and "uninterned symbols loose their" should become "uninterned symbols lose their".
Replying to felix:
I have attached a diff to the manual. Is this sufficient, or should it go into more detail?
comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Thanks. I have fixed the typos and pushed the diff into master.
I have attached a diff to the manual. Is this sufficient, or should it go into more detail?