Re: [boost] A few more filesystem documentation corrections

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-05 20:17:20

At 05:24 PM 11/27/2004, Edward Diener wrote:
 >Here are a few more grammatical corrections to the excellent filesystem
 >documentation.
 >
 >Default Name Check mechanism
 >Dangers
 >second sentence:
 >
 >"Since global variables are considered harmful [Wulf-Shaw-73], class path
 >allows the default name check function can be set only once, and only
 >before
 >the first use."
 >
 >should be:
 >
 >"Since global variables are considered harmful [Wulf-Shaw-73], class path
 >allows that the default name check function can be set only once, and 
only
 >before the first use."
 >
 >or
 >
 >"Since global variables are considered harmful [Wulf-Shaw-73], class path
 >allows the default name check function to be set only once, and only 
before
 >the first use."

Fixed.

 >Rationale
 >Const vs non-const returns
 >last sentence:
 >
 >"A requirement that path::iterator not be a non-class type was added to
 >eliminate errors non-const iterator errors."
 >
 >should be:
 >
 >"A requirement that path::iterator not be a non-class type was added to
 >eliminate non-const iterator errors."
 >
 >or better:
 >
 >"A requirement that path::iterator be a class type was added to eliminate
 >non-const iterator errors."

Fixed.

 >Finally, in operations.hpp, links on "class directory_iterator" and 
"other
 >functions"  to their explanations further down the page do not work using
 >IE, Netscape, or Opera, so I imagine some HTML error.

Fixed.

Thanks,

--Beman