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Diffstat (limited to 'txr.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | txr.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -9348,7 +9348,7 @@ object. For any other object type, it returns nil. .TP Syntax: - (regex-compile <form-or-string>) + (regex-compile <form-or-string> : <error-stream>) .TP Description: @@ -9363,6 +9363,9 @@ abstract syntax tree first, if by a call to (regex-parse <form-or-string>). If the parse is successful (the result is not nil) then it is compiled by a recursive call to regex-compile. +The optional <error-stream> argument is passed down to regex-compile, +if that call takes place. + .TP Examples: @@ -9384,7 +9387,7 @@ Examples: .TP Syntax: - (regex-parse <string> : <stream>) + (regex-parse <string> : <error-stream>) .TP Description: @@ -9399,10 +9402,10 @@ function performs this parsing at run-time. If there are parse errors, the function returns nil. -The optional <stream> argument specifies a stream to which error messages +The optional <error-stream> argument specifies a stream to which error messages are sent from the parser. By default, diagnostic output goes to the *stdnull* -stream, which discards it. If <stream> is specified as t, then the diagnostic -output goes to the *stdout* stream. +stream, which discards it. If <error-stream> is specified as t, then the +diagnostic output goes to the *stdout* stream. If regex-parse returns a non-nil value, that structure is then something which is suitable as input to regex-compile. |