[Caml-list] [Mantis Bug Tracker] [OCaml 0005317]: Errors in OCaml manual on web, Section 1.8

["Joshua D. Guttman" <guttman@WPI.EDU>]

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Strange that no one seems to be correcting errors in the
manual any more.  I submitted a bug report for an error in
the automatically generated text in the manual (it fails
because dynlink was not loaded).  

I got a prompt response, for which I am grateful.  

Oddly, though, the response simply classifies this bug as a
duplicate of a bug reported in August 2010.  That bug is
marked as having its resolution open.

I suspect that the documentation could be fixed with a few
minutes work, followed by whatever process updates the
public version.  

It's not a big bug, but it's odd that no one has bothered to
fix it in eleven months.

        Joshua 


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From: Mantis Bug Tracker <nouser@inria.fr>
To: guttman@WPI.EDU
Subject: [OCaml 0005317]: Errors in OCaml manual on web, Section 1.8
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:28:20 +0200
Message-ID: <0cf275fef7ea7bcc0e3b27dadc7cff82@caml.inria.fr>


The following issue has been set as DUPLICATE OF issue 0005132. 
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http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5317 
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Reported By:                guttman
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    OCaml
Issue ID:                   5317
Category:                   OCaml documentation
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2011-07-20 17:41 CEST
Last Modified:              2011-07-21 09:28 CEST
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Summary:                    Errors in OCaml manual on web, Section 1.8
Description: 
At URL http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual003.html
as of today, there are errors reported in the code being illustrated. 

The first error is 

##load "camlp4o.cma";;
Characters -1–1:
Error: Reference to undefined global ‘Dynlink’
 
after which there are of course others, such as 

Error: Syntax error
 
#let parse_expression = parser [< e = parse_expr; _ = Stream.empty >] ->
e;;
Error: Syntax error
Composing the lexer and parser, we finally obtain a function to read an
expression from a character string:

#let read_expression s = parse_expression(lexer(Stream.of_string s));;
Error: Unbound value parse_expression


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Relationships       ID      Summary
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duplicate of        0005132 machine-generated errors in the manual!
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2011-07-20 17:41 guttman        New Issue                                    
2011-07-21 09:28 xclerc         Relationship added       duplicate of 0005132
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	Joshua D. Guttman
	WPI, Computer Science