From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:19:51 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Reword a confusing sentence. X-Git-Tag: 0.29~36 X-Git-Url: http://thyrsus.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64c968f2c92ed7e2b952ed84641306fdf515e7b3;p=intercal.git Reword a confusing sentence. --- diff --git a/doc/ick.txi b/doc/ick.txi index 7b44959..f1d0264 100644 --- a/doc/ick.txi +++ b/doc/ick.txi @@ -2716,13 +2716,14 @@ group is opened inside an array subscript), it's necessary to use the other grouping character to the one that opened the current group if you want a portable program. -One final comment about sparks and rabbit-ears; if the next character in -the program is a spot, as often happens because onespot variables are -common choices for operands, a spark and the following spot can be -combined into a wow (@code{!}). Unfortunately, none of the character -sets that @cic{} accepts as input (UTF-8, Latin-1, and ASCII-7) contain -the rabbit character, although the Hollerith input format that @clcic{} -can use does. +One final comment about sparks and rabbit-ears; if the next character +in the program is a spot, as often happens because onespot variables +are common choices for operands, a spark and the following spot can be +combined into a wow (@code{!}). Unfortunately, the rabbit-ear/spot +combination has no one-character equivalent in any of the character +sets that @cic{} accepts as input (UTF-8, Latin-1, and ASCII-7) as +none of these contain the rabbit character, although the Hollerith +input format that @clcic{} can use does. @item Positional precedences: @clcic{} rules