Changeset 14516

Timestamp:

06/05/13 09:06:27 (10 years ago)

Author:

Mark Evenson

Message:

abcl-1.2.0: User manual refinements.

File:

• branches/1.2.x/doc/manual/abcl.tex (modified) (9 diffs)

branches/1.2.x/doc/manual/abcl.tex

@@ -21 +21 @@
 %%Preface to the Third edition, abcl-1.2.
 \subsection{Preface to the Third Edition}
-THe implementation now contains a performant and conformant
+The implementation now contains a performant and conformant
 implementation of (A)MOP to the point of inclusion in CLOSER-MOP's
 test suite.
@@ -49 +49 @@
   of Java interfaces that can be used as listeners for Swing classes and
   similar.
+\item \code{java:jnew-runtime-class} can inject fully synthetic Java
+  classes--and their objects-- into the current JVM process whose
+  behavior is specified via closures expressed in Common Lisp.. \footnote{Parts of
+    the current implementation are not fully finished, so the status
+    of some interfaces here should be treated with skepticism if you
+    run into problems.}
+
 \end{itemize}
 \textsc{ABCL} is supported by the Lisp library manager
@@ -880 +887 @@
 
 \index{URI}
-\item Any results of canonicalization procesures performed on the
+\item Any results of canonicalization procedures performed on the
   underlying \textsc{URI} are discarded between resolutions (i.e. the
   implementation does not attempt to cache the results of current name
@@ -889 +896 @@
   computation of the resolution of the resource by applying the
   \code{CL:TRUENAME} function to a \code{EXT:URL-PATHNAME} object.
-  Depending on the reliablity and properties of your local
+  Depending on the reliability and properties of your local
   \textsc{REST} infrastructure, these results may not necessarily be
   idempotent over time\footnote {See \cite{evenson2011} for the draft
@@ -915 +922 @@
 usual PATHNAME merge semantics when \code{*DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*}
 contains a \code{EXT:JAR-PATHNAME} with the ``do what I mean''
-algorithim described in \ref{section:conformance} on page
+algorithm described in \ref{section:conformance} on page
 \pageref{section:conformance}.
 
@@ -934 +941 @@
   outer and (possibly inner) locations of the jar
   archive \footnote{The case of inner and outer
-    \code{EXT:EJAR-PATHNAME} arises when zip archives themselves
+    \code{EXT:JAR-PATHNAME} arises when zip archives themselves
     contain zip archives which is the case when the ABCL fasl is
     included in the abcl.jar zip archive.}.
@@ -950 +957 @@
 
 \item In order to encapsulate the implementation decisions for these
-  meanings, the following functions provide a setf-able API for
+  meanings, the following functions provide a SETF-able API for
   reading and writing such values: \code{URL-PATHNAME-QUERY},
   \code{URL-PATHNAME-FRAGMENT}, \code{URL-PATHNAME-AUTHORITY}, and
-  \code{URL-PATHNAME-SCHEME}.  The specific subtype of a Pathname may
+  \code{URL-PATHNAME-SCHEME}.  The specific sub-type of a Pathname may
   be determined with the predicates \code{PATHNAME-URL-P} and
   \code{PATHNAME-JAR-P}.
@@ -1015 +1022 @@
 
 \begin{adjustwidth}{5em}{5em}
-  Returns an alist of \code{(local-nickname . actual-package)}
+  Returns an ALIST of \code{(local-nickname . actual-package)}
   describing the nicknames local to the designated package.
 
@@ -1237 +1244 @@
 \section{ASDF}
 
-asdf-2.30 (see \cite{asdf}) is packaged as core component of \textsc{ABCL},
+asdf-3.0.1 (see \cite{asdf}) is packaged as core component of \textsc{ABCL},
 but not initialized by default, as it relies on the \textsc{CLOS} subsystem
 which can take a bit of time to start \footnote{While this time is