[pure-lang-svn] SF.net SVN: pure-lang:[710] pure/trunk/pure.1.in

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Revision: 710
          http://pure-lang.svn.sourceforge.net/pure-lang/?rev=710&view=rev
Author:   agraef
Date:     2008-09-05 02:11:39 +0000 (Fri, 05 Sep 2008)

Log Message:
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Update documentation.

Modified Paths:
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    pure/trunk/pure.1.in

Modified: pure/trunk/pure.1.in
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--- pure/trunk/pure.1.in	2008-09-05 02:01:42 UTC (rev 709)
+++ pure/trunk/pure.1.in	2008-09-05 02:11:39 UTC (rev 710)
@@ -1897,9 +1897,11 @@
 See the DEFINITION LEVELS section below for details.
 .PP
 Note that these special commands are only recognized at the beginning of the
-interactive command line. (Thus you can escape an identifier at the beginning
-of the command line, which looks like a command, by prefixing it with a space
-or by wrapping it up in parentheses.)
+interactive command line (they are not reserved keywords of the Pure
+language). Thus it's possible to ``escape'' identifiers looking like commands
+by entering a space at the start of the line. However, the compiler also warns
+you about identifiers which might be mistaken as command names, so that you
+can avoid this kind of problem.
 .PP
 Some commands which are especially important for effective operation of the
 interpreter are discussed in more detail in the following sections.


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