[Gd-chatter] r11070 - trunk/documentation/gwydion
agent at gwydiondylan.org
agent at gwydiondylan.org
Sat Dec 16 04:31:45 CET 2006
Author: agent
Date: Sat Dec 16 04:31:42 2006
New Revision: 11070
Modified:
trunk/documentation/gwydion/gdlibs.sgml
Log:
Job: minor
Corrected some mis-spellings.
Modified: trunk/documentation/gwydion/gdlibs.sgml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/documentation/gwydion/gdlibs.sgml (original)
+++ trunk/documentation/gwydion/gdlibs.sgml Sat Dec 16 04:31:42 2006
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
<TITLE>Introduction</TITLE>
<PARA>This manual serves as a guide to the libraries included with
- Gywdion &dylan;. These libraries include:</PARA>
+ Gwydion &dylan;. These libraries include:</PARA>
<VARIABLELIST>
<VARLISTENTRY>
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
<PARA>For the remainder of this chapter, we shall refer to
"Gwydion compilers" as a shorthand for "Mindy and other
Dylan compilers that the Gwydion Project may write." It is
- not meant as a guarentee that all future Gwydion releases will
+ not meant as a guarantee that all future Gwydion releases will
support these extensions.</PARA>
<PARA>Specific Gwydion compilers may support extensions not
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
<PARA>Whenever possible, we have tried to keep the
<dmodule>Dylan</dmodule> module pristine and unextended,
- prefering to add our extensions to separate modules or
+ preferring to add our extensions to separate modules or
libraries. However, this is not always possible, particularly
when it involves extending the behavior of a function or macro
that is exported from the <dmodule>Dylan</dmodule>
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@
supplied methods. The default method (on
<dclass>condition</dclass>) simply prints
the condition (not very descriptive). The
- <dclass>format-string-condtion</dclass>
+ <dclass>format-string-condition</dclass>
(of which the simple conditions are derived) method uses
the supplied format-string to output information about
the cause of the condition. The
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@
can take on any value, and are similar to Common Lisp
"bignums." Expressions involving
<dclass>extended-integer</dclass>s produce
- <dclass>extendedinteger</dclass> results because
+ <dclass>extended-integer</dclass> results because
<dclass>extended-integer</dclass>s are
contagious. If an expression involving only
<dclass>integer</dclass> values would produce a
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@
<AUTHORBLURB>
<FORMALPARA>
- <TITLE>Acknowlegements</TITLE>
+ <TITLE>Acknowledgments</TITLE>
<PARA>We'd like to thank the other people who
have been instrumental in the production of this proposal:
Jonathan Bachrach, Dave Berry, John Dunning, Chris Fry, Paul
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@
efficiently, especially for buffered streams.</PARA>
<PARA>Some streams are positionable; that is, they permit random
- access to their elements. Postionable streams allow you to set
+ access to their elements. Positionable streams allow you to set
the position at which the stream will be accessed by the next
operation. The following example uses positioning to return the
character <dlit>'w'</dlit> from a stream over the string
@@ -1323,7 +1323,7 @@
<SECT1 id="libs-streams-ref">
<TITLE>Streams Reference</TITLE>
- <PARA>The exported streams class heterarchy is as follows:</PARA>
+ <PARA>The exported streams class hierarchy is as follows:</PARA>
<FIGURE>
<TITLE>Streams library classes.</TITLE>
@@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@
<dname>element</dname> to resolve element access of
sequences with the bracket syntax
(i.e. <dlit>[</dlit> and <dlit>]</dlit>). Results
- can be unpredicable when one has a local binding to
+ can be unpredictable when one has a local binding to
<dname>element</dname> and also indexes into
sequences with the bracket syntax.
</para>
@@ -1926,7 +1926,7 @@
<sect5 id="libs-streams-reg-general-fns-reading-handy">
<title>Convenience Reading Functions</title>
<para>
- Conveniece functions for reading from streams.
+ Convenience functions for reading from streams.
These functions are implemented in terms of the more
primitive functions defined above.
</para>
@@ -1955,7 +1955,8 @@
<paramname>test</paramname>
<paramtype><function></paramtype>
<paramdefault>\==</paramdefault>
- <paramsummary>Comparator for elemnt and the stream's contents.
+ <paramsummary>Comparator for <parameter>elemnt</parameter> and the
+ stream's contents.
</paramsummary>
</keyparam>
</defparameters>
@@ -2007,7 +2008,8 @@
<paramname>test</paramname>
<paramtype><function></paramtype>
<paramdefault>\==</paramdefault>
- <paramsummary>Comparator for elemnt and the stream's contents.
+ <paramsummary>Comparator for <parameter>elemnt</parameter> and the
+ stream's contents.
</paramsummary>
</keyparam>
</defparameters>
@@ -2896,7 +2898,7 @@
</itemizedlist>
<para>
The last format directive (%m) is specific to
- GwydionDylan. See the below examples for
+ Gwydion Dylan. See the below examples for
using some of the format directives.
</para>
<sect2 id="libs-format-simple-example">
@@ -3977,7 +3979,7 @@
<CHAPTER ID="libs-collection-extensions">
<docinfo>
- <title>Collection Extentions</title>
+ <title>Collection Extensions</title>
<date>November 18, 2000</date>
<author>&person.auclair;</author>
</docinfo>
@@ -3995,7 +3997,7 @@
in time, and they will likely be added to this library. This
may also result in reorganizations which could force
incompatible changes to the existing modules. We hope to
- minimize such imcompatibilities and, when forced to them,
+ minimize such incompatibilities and, when forced to them,
will include sufficient information to facilitate conversion
of existing code.
</para>
@@ -4039,7 +4041,7 @@
</itemizedlist>
<para>
The Collections-Extensions Library also has some additional
- modules added by the GwydionDylan Maintainers. These modules
+ modules added by the Gwydion Dylan Maintainers. These modules
are:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
@@ -4080,7 +4082,7 @@
</para>
<para>
Because they have a very low overhead, self-organizing lists
- may provide better peformance than hash tables in cases
+ may provide better performance than hash tables in cases
where references have a high degree of temporal
locality. They may also be useful in situations where it is
difficult to create a proper hash function.
@@ -6714,7 +6716,7 @@
<paramname>marks</paramname>
<paramtype>false-or(<integer>)</paramtype>
<paramsummary>
- The position of the end of the matche in the string
+ The position of the end of the match in the string
(see below).
</paramsummary>
</restparam>
@@ -8616,7 +8618,7 @@
<para>
<dlit>parsed-day-of-year</dlit>: We change this if
we're asked to read in a day-of-year. Since we can't
- make sense of a day-of-year without knowning if it's a
+ make sense of a day-of-year without knowing if it's a
leap-year (and thus, knowing the year), we delay
processing of this information
</para>
@@ -8918,7 +8920,7 @@
<TITLE>The Matrix Library</TITLE>
<PARA>
This library implements some basic matrix operations. These
- functions are not guarenteed to be stable or numerically sound,
+ functions are not guaranteed to be stable or numerically sound,
nor are they very optimized, but for smaller applications they
should be suitable.
</para>
@@ -9060,7 +9062,7 @@
These are operations on matrices. The include the "simple"
arithmetic operations (\+, \-, \*), as well as other standard
matrix operations, such as inverse, transpose, augment, and
- gauss-jordan elimations.
+ gauss-jordan eliminations.
</para>
<dylanmethoddef>
@@ -9268,11 +9270,11 @@
</defreturns>
<defdescription>
<para>
- This procedure does gauss-jordan elimation on a matrix of
+ This procedure does gauss-jordan elimination on a matrix of
dimension N by N + 1. The first N columns are the
- coefficents in a set of simultaneous equations, and the
+ coefficients in a set of simultaneous equations, and the
last column is a solution vector. The matrix that is
- returned is an N by 1 matrix contaning the solution for
+ returned is an N by 1 matrix containing the solution for
each variable. For example, if you have a system of
equations like this:
</para>
@@ -9317,11 +9319,11 @@
Finds the inverse of a matrix, by using a modified
gauss-jordan elimination. Given any matrix, if there is
an inverse, the inverse will be returned, otherwise, an
- error will be signalled. To determine the existance of an
+ error will be signalled. To determine the existence of an
inverse, the algorithm finds the upper triangular matrix,
and then multiplies all of the elements along the main
diagonal. If the result of this multiplication is zero,
- there is no inverse, otherwise, there is gaurenteed to be
+ there is no inverse, otherwise, there is guaranteed to be
an inverse.
</para>
</defdescription>
@@ -9781,7 +9783,7 @@
</param>
<restparam>
<paramname>init-keys</paramname>
- <paramsummary>Inititialization keywords for for the new
+ <paramsummary>Initialization keywords for for the new
option parser.</paramsummary>
</restparam>
</defparameters>
@@ -9840,7 +9842,7 @@
<title>Chop individual arguments around any equals
sign</title> <para>If any argument contains the character
<dlit>'='</dlit>, break the argument into three strings:
- everything before the first occurance of the equals sign,
+ everything before the first occurrence of the equals sign,
the sign itself, and the remainder of the original
string.</para>
</formalpara>
@@ -10046,7 +10048,7 @@
<para>This behavior is consistent with that of the utility
<literal>rm</literal>, which allows the user to set default
options with a shell alias of the form <literal>alias rm="rm
- -i"</literal>. Such defaults can be overriden by explicity
+ -i"</literal>. Such defaults can be overridden by explicitly
passing a flag when calling <literal>rm</literal> because the
rightmost value takes precedence.</para>
</defdescription>
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