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-rw-r--r--system/doc/reference_manual/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml4
-rw-r--r--system/doc/reference_manual/distributed.xml6
-rw-r--r--system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml36
-rw-r--r--system/doc/reference_manual/macros.xml2
-rw-r--r--system/doc/reference_manual/make.dep16
-rw-r--r--[-rwxr-xr-x]system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml0
7 files changed, 29 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/Makefile b/system/doc/reference_manual/Makefile
index 34e5b7f555..2e1f8e71cb 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/Makefile
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/Makefile
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ DVIPS_FLAGS +=
# ----------------------------------------------------
# Targets
# ----------------------------------------------------
+_create_dirs := $(shell mkdir -p $(HTMLDIR))
+
docs: html
local_docs: PDFDIR=../../pdf
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml
index f56e1ff408..3ea72a4057 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ loop() ->
<c>code_switch</c> to it. The process then will make a fully
qualified call to <c>m:loop()</c> and change to current code.
Note that <c>m:loop/0</c> must be exported.</p>
- <p>For code replacement of funs to work, the tuple syntax
- <c>{Module,FunctionName}</c> must be used to represent the fun.</p>
+ <p>For code replacement of funs to work, the syntax
+ <c>fun Module:FunctionName/Arity</c> should be used.</p>
</section>
<section>
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/distributed.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/distributed.xml
index d0eac78404..bc55d14c90 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/distributed.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/distributed.xml
@@ -176,11 +176,11 @@ dilbert@uab</pre>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>is_alive()</c></cell>
- <cell align="left" valign="middle">Returns <c>true</c>if the runtime system is a node and can connect to other nodes, <c>false</c>otherwise.</cell>
+ <cell align="left" valign="middle">Returns <c>true</c> if the runtime system is a node and can connect to other nodes, <c>false</c> otherwise.</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>monitor_node(Node, true|false)</c></cell>
- <cell align="left" valign="middle">Monitor the status of <c>Node</c>. A message<c>{nodedown, Node}</c>is received if the connection to it is lost.</cell>
+ <cell align="left" valign="middle">Monitor the status of <c>Node</c>. A message<c>{nodedown, Node}</c> is received if the connection to it is lost.</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>node()</c></cell>
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ dilbert@uab</pre>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>set_cookie(Node, Cookie)</c></cell>
- <cell align="left" valign="middle">Sets the magic cookie used when connecting to <c>Node</c>. If <c>Node</c>is the current node, <c>Cookie</c>will be used when connecting to all new nodes.</cell>
+ <cell align="left" valign="middle">Sets the magic cookie used when connecting to <c>Node</c>. If <c>Node</c> is the current node, <c>Cookie</c> will be used when connecting to all new nodes.</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>spawn[_link|_opt](Node, Fun)</c></cell>
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
index 497d7eb464..5fca7225bb 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
@@ -561,11 +561,15 @@ number &lt; atom &lt; reference &lt; fun &lt; port &lt; pid &lt; tuple &lt; list
<p>Lists are compared element by element. Tuples are ordered by
size, two tuples with the same size are compared element by
element.</p>
- <p>If one of the compared terms is an integer and the other a
- float, the integer is first converted into a float, unless the
- operator is one of =:= and =/=. If the integer is too big to fit
- in a float no conversion is done, but the order is determined by
- inspecting the sign of the numbers.</p>
+ <p>When comparing an integer to a float, the term with the lesser
+ precision will be converted into the other term's type, unless the
+ operator is one of =:= or =/=. A float is more precise than
+ an integer until all significant figures of the float are to the left of
+ the decimal point. This happens when the float is larger/smaller than
+ +/-9007199254740992.0. The conversion strategy is changed
+ depending on the size of the float because otherwise comparison of large
+ floats and integers would lose their transitivity.</p>
+
<p>Returns the Boolean value of the expression, <c>true</c> or
<c>false</c>.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
@@ -879,9 +883,8 @@ Ei = Value |
and UTF-32, respectively.</p>
<p>When constructing a segment of a <c>utf</c> type, <c>Value</c>
- must be an integer in one of the ranges 0..16#D7FF,
- 16#E000..16#FFFD, or 16#10000..16#10FFFF
- (i.e. a valid Unicode code point). Construction
+ must be an integer in the range 0..16#D7FF or
+ 16#E000....16#10FFFF. Construction
will fail with a <c>badarg</c> exception if <c>Value</c> is
outside the allowed ranges. The size of the resulting binary
segment depends on the type and/or <c>Value</c>. For <c>utf8</c>,
@@ -896,14 +899,13 @@ Ei = Value |
<c><![CDATA[<<$a/utf8,$b/utf8,$c/utf8>>]]></c>.</p>
<p>A successful match of a segment of a <c>utf</c> type results
- in an integer in one of the ranges 0..16#D7FF, 16#E000..16#FFFD,
- or 16#10000..16#10FFFF
- (i.e. a valid Unicode code point). The match will fail if returned value
+ in an integer in the range 0..16#D7FF or 16#E000..16#10FFFF.
+ The match will fail if returned value
would fall outside those ranges.</p>
<p>A segment of type <c>utf8</c> will match 1 to 4 bytes in the binary,
if the binary at the match position contains a valid UTF-8 sequence.
- (See RFC-2279 or the Unicode standard.)</p>
+ (See RFC-3629 or the Unicode standard.)</p>
<p>A segment of type <c>utf16</c> may match 2 or 4 bytes in the binary.
The match will fail if the binary at the match position does not contain
@@ -991,15 +993,19 @@ fun Module:Name/Arity</pre>
<pre>
fun (Arg1,...,ArgN) -> Name(Arg1,...,ArgN) end</pre>
<p>In <c>Module:Name/Arity</c>, <c>Module</c> and <c>Name</c> are atoms
- and <c>Arity</c> is an integer.
+ and <c>Arity</c> is an integer. Starting from the R15 release,
+ <c>Module</c>, <c>Name</c>, and <c>Arity</c> may also be variables.
A fun defined in this way will refer to the function <c>Name</c>
- with arity <c>Arity</c> in the <em>latest</em> version of module <c>Module</c>.
+ with arity <c>Arity</c> in the <em>latest</em> version of module
+ <c>Module</c>. A fun defined in this way will not be dependent on
+ the code for module in which it is defined.
</p>
<p>When applied to a number N of arguments, a tuple
<c>{Module,FunctionName}</c> is interpreted as a fun, referring
to the function <c>FunctionName</c> with arity N in the module
<c>Module</c>. The function must be exported.
- <em>This usage is deprecated.</em>
+ <em>This usage is deprecated.</em> Use <c>fun Module:Name/Arity</c>
+ instead.
See <seealso marker="#calls">Function Calls</seealso> for an example.</p>
<p>More examples can be found in <em>Programming Examples</em>.</p>
</section>
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/macros.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/macros.xml
index 9dd5fc79bd..bfac7f8d79 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/macros.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/macros.xml
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ or
?TESTCALL(you:function(2,1)).</code>
<p>results in</p>
<code type="none">
-io:format("Call ~s: ~w~n",["myfunction ( 1 , 2 )",m:myfunction(1,2)]),
+io:format("Call ~s: ~w~n",["myfunction ( 1 , 2 )",myfunction(1,2)]),
io:format("Call ~s: ~w~n",["you : function ( 2 , 1 )",you:function(2,1)]).</code>
<p>That is, a trace output with both the function called and
the resulting value.</p>
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/make.dep b/system/doc/reference_manual/make.dep
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e7687448c..0000000000
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/make.dep
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-# >>>> Do not edit this file <<<<
-# This file was automaticly generated by
-# /home/otp/bin/docdepend
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-
-
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-# TeX files that the DVI file depend on
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-
-book.dvi: book.tex code_loading.tex data_types.tex distributed.tex \
- errors.tex expressions.tex functions.tex introduction.tex \
- macros.tex modules.tex part.tex patterns.tex \
- ports.tex processes.tex records.tex
-
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml
index f08639f9a1..f08639f9a1 100755..100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml