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authorHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2013-03-28 13:06:40 +0100
committerHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2013-03-29 08:50:25 +0100
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Document erl_parse:abstract/2
A bug has been fixed: when given the option {encoding,utf8} a list of floating point numbers (in the correct interval) was mistakenly returned as a string.
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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_parse.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_parse.xml
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--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_parse.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_parse.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2011</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -167,6 +167,23 @@
<p>Converts the Erlang data structure <c><anno>Data</anno></c> into an
abstract form of type <c><anno>AbsTerm</anno></c>.
This is the inverse of <c>normalise/1</c>.</p>
+ <p><c>erl_parse:abstract(T)</c> is equivalent to
+ <c>erl_parse:abstract(T, 0)</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name name="abstract" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Convert an Erlang term into an abstract form</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Converts the Erlang data structure <c><anno>Data</anno></c> into an
+ abstract form of type <c><anno>AbsTerm</anno></c>.</p>
+ <p>The <c><anno>Line</anno></c> option is the line that will
+ be assigned to each node of the abstract form.</p>
+ <p>The <c><anno>Encoding</anno></c> option is used for
+ selecting which integer lists will be considered
+ as strings. The default is to use the encoding returned by
+ <seealso marker="epp#default_encoding/0">
+ <c>epp:default_encoding/0</c></seealso></p>
</desc>
</func>
</funcs>