commit 229e679e5aacff601080024547c953ae83b3f918
parent 07cfa1f093081a9c22ec69cc66e0179ef2f7257e
Author: Alexander Burger <abu@software-lab.de>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:11:47 +0100
Minor corrections
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man1/picolisp.1 b/man/man1/picolisp.1
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
pil, picolisp \- a fast, lightweight Lisp interpreter
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pil
-[arguments ..] [-] [arguments ..] [+]
+[arguments ...] [-] [arguments ...] [+]
.br
.B /installpath/bin/picolisp
-[arguments ..] [-] [arguments ..] [+]
+[arguments ...] [-] [arguments ...] [+]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B PicoLisp
is a Lisp interpreter with a small memory footprint, yet relatively high
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ binary base system and loading a useful runtime environment.
.P
.B picolisp
is just the bare interpreter binary. It is usually called in stand-alone
-scripts, by using the she-bang notation in the first line, passing the minimal
+scripts, using the she-bang notation in the first line, passing the minimal
environment in
.I lib.l
and loading additional files as needed:
@@ -32,14 +32,20 @@ and loading additional files as needed:
.RS
(load "@ext.l" "myfiles/lib.l" "myfiles/foo.l")
.RE
+.RS
+(do ... something ...)
+.RE
+.RS
+(bye)
+.RE
.SH INVOCATION
.B PicoLisp
-has no pre-defined command line flags; any application is free to defined its
+has no pre-defined command line flags; applications are free to define their
own. Any built-in or user-level Lisp function can be invoked from the command
line by prefixing it with a hyphen. Examples for built-in functions useful in
this context are
.B version
-(prints the version number) or
+(print the version number) or
.B bye
(exit the interpreter). Therefore, a minimal call to print the version number
and then immediately exit the interpreter would be:
@@ -50,7 +56,7 @@ pil -version -bye
.P
Any other argument (not starting with a hyphen) should be the name of a file to
be loaded. If the first character of a path or file name is an at-mark, it
-will be substituted by the path to the installation directory.
+will be substituted with the path to the installation directory.
.P
All arguments are evaluated from left to right, then an interactive
.I read-eval-print
@@ -61,7 +67,7 @@ the remaining arguments may be processed under program control.
.P
If the very last command line argument is a single plus character, debugging
mode is switched on at interpreter startup, before evaluating any of the command
-line arguments. A minimal interactive session is therefore started as:
+line arguments. A minimal interactive session is started with:
.P
.RS
pil +
@@ -70,8 +76,8 @@ pil +
The interpreter can be terminated by typing Ctrl-D or (bye).
.SH BUGS
.B PicoLisp
-doesn't try to protect you from all programming errors, like other interpreters
-do ("You asked for it, you got it").
+doesn't try to protect you from every possible programming error ("You asked for
+it, you got it").
.SH AUTHOR
Alexander Burger <abu@software-lab.de>
.SH RESOURCES
