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authorHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2013-01-25 10:36:57 +0100
committerHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2013-01-25 12:54:28 +0100
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[stdlib] Remove documentation of ~tp
There seems to be a need for a more elaborate solution when it comes to recognizing printable Unicode characters. The ~tp syntax is experimental, and may be removed in R16B.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml18
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml
index 67edc013d4..fa475804eb 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml
@@ -493,9 +493,8 @@ ok
<c>~w</c>, but breaks terms whose printed representation
is longer than one line into many lines and indents each
line sensibly. It also tries to detect lists of
- printable characters and to output these as strings. The
- Unicode translation modifier is used for determining
- what characters are printable. For example:</p>
+ printable characters and to output these as strings.
+ For example:</p>
<pre>
5> <input>T = [{attributes,[[{id,age,1.50000},{mode,explicit},</input>
<input>{typename,"INTEGER"}], [{id,cho},{mode,explicit},{typename,'Cho'}]]},</input>
@@ -534,19 +533,6 @@ Here T = [{attributes,[[{id,age,1.5},
{tag,{'PRIVATE',3}},
{mode,implicit}]
ok</pre>
- <p>Binaries that look like UTF-8 encoded strings will be
- output with the string syntax if the Unicode translation
- modifier is given:</p>
- <pre>
-9> <input>io:fwrite("~p~n",[[1024]]).</input>
-[1024]
-10> <input>io:fwrite("~tp~n",[[1024]]).</input>
-"\x{400}"
-11> <input>io:fwrite("~tp~n", [&lt;&lt;128,128&gt;&gt;]).</input>
-&lt;&lt;128,128&gt;&gt;
-12> <input>io:fwrite("~tp~n", [&lt;&lt;208,128&gt;&gt;]).</input>
-&lt;&lt;"\x{400}"/utf8&gt;&gt;
-ok</pre>
</item>
<tag><c>W</c></tag>
<item>