Changeset 14201

Timestamp:

10/15/12 16:08:06 (11 years ago)

Author:

Mark Evenson

Message:

manual: update for abcl-1.1.0.

File:

• trunk/abcl/doc/manual/abcl.tex (modified) (8 diffs)

trunk/abcl/doc/manual/abcl.tex

@@ -9 +9 @@
 \begin{document}
 \title{Armed Bear Common Lisp User Manual}
-\date{Version 1.1.0-dev\\
+\date{Version 1.1.0\\
 \smallskip
-May 14, 2012}
+October 15, 2012}
 \author{Mark Evenson \and Erik H\"{u}lsmann \and Rudolf Schlatte \and
   Alessio Stalla \and Ville Voutilainen}
@@ -18 +18 @@
 
 \tableofcontents
+
+%%\chapter{Preface}
+%%Preface to the second edition, abcl-1.1.0.
 
 \chapter{Introduction}
@@ -857 +860 @@
   details}.
 
-
-
 \end{itemize}
 
@@ -871 +872 @@
 
 will load and execute the Quicklisp setup code.
+
+The implementation currently breaks ANSI conformance by allowing the
+types able to be READ for the DEVICE to return a possible CONS of
+PATHNAME objects.  %% citation from CLHS needed.
+
+In order to ``smooth over'' the bit about types being READ from
+PATHNAME components, we extend the semantics for the usual PATHNAME
+merge semantics when *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* contains a
+\code{JAR-PATHNAME}.  
 
 %See \ref{_:quicklisp} on page \pageref{_:quicklisp}.
@@ -1003 +1013 @@
 by the reader as character whose code is specified by the hexadecimal
 digits ``xxxx''.  The hexadecimal sequence may be one to four digits
-long.
+long.  % Why doesn't ALEXANDRIA work?
 
 Note that this sequence is never output by the implementation.  Instead,
@@ -1037 +1047 @@
         These systems name common JVM artifacts from the distributed pom.xml graph of Maven Aether:
         \begin{enumerate}
-          \item \code{jna} Dynamically load 'jna.jar' version 3.0.9 from the network.
+          \item \code{jna} Dynamically load 'jna.jar' version 3.4.0 from the network.
         \end{enumerate}
       \item \code{quicklisp-abcl} (Not working) boot a local Quicklisp
@@ -1060 +1070 @@
 \section{ASDF}
 
-asdf-2.019 (see \cite{asdf}) is packaged as core component of ABCL,
+asdf-2.25 (see \cite{asdf}) is packaged as core component of ABCL,
 but not initialized by default, as it relies on the CLOS subsystem
 which can take a bit of time to start \footnote{While this time is
@@ -1241 +1251 @@
 on January 10, 2012.
 
+In October 2012, we revised the implementation with the release of
+abcl-1.1.0 and accumulated changes to this manual.
+
 \bibliography{abcl}
 \bibliographystyle{alpha}