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authordkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2012-11-08 15:21:29 (GMT)
committerdkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2012-11-08 15:21:29 (GMT)
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Updated the language of the documentation so that "object" refers to an OO
concept throughout, and a Tcl_Obj is called a "value" (which is what it is).
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diff --git a/doc/DictObj.3 b/doc/DictObj.3
index a5dc9e5..db8f39a 100644
--- a/doc/DictObj.3
+++ b/doc/DictObj.3
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
.BS
'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
.SH NAME
-Tcl_NewDictObj, Tcl_DictObjPut, Tcl_DictObjGet, Tcl_DictObjRemove, Tcl_DictObjSize, Tcl_DictObjFirst, Tcl_DictObjNext, Tcl_DictObjDone, Tcl_DictObjPutKeyList, Tcl_DictObjRemoveKeyList \- manipulate Tcl objects as dictionaries
+Tcl_NewDictObj, Tcl_DictObjPut, Tcl_DictObjGet, Tcl_DictObjRemove, Tcl_DictObjSize, Tcl_DictObjFirst, Tcl_DictObjNext, Tcl_DictObjDone, Tcl_DictObjPutKeyList, Tcl_DictObjRemoveKeyList \- manipulate Tcl values as dictionaries
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -47,23 +47,23 @@ int
.SH ARGUMENTS
.AS Tcl_DictSearch "**valuePtrPtr" in/out
.AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
-If an error occurs while converting an object to be a dictionary object,
-an error message is left in the interpreter's result object
+If an error occurs while converting a value to be a dictionary value,
+an error message is left in the interpreter's result value
unless \fIinterp\fR is NULL.
.AP Tcl_Obj *dictPtr in/out
-Points to the dictionary object to be manipulated.
-If \fIdictPtr\fR does not already point to a dictionary object,
+Points to the dictionary value to be manipulated.
+If \fIdictPtr\fR does not already point to a dictionary value,
an attempt will be made to convert it to one.
.AP Tcl_Obj *keyPtr in
Points to the key for the key/value pair being manipulated within the
-dictionary object.
+dictionary value.
.AP Tcl_Obj **keyPtrPtr out
Points to a variable that will have the key from a key/value pair
placed within it. May be NULL to indicate that the caller is not
interested in the key.
.AP Tcl_Obj *valuePtr in
Points to the value for the key/value pair being manipulated within the
-dictionary object (or sub-object, in the case of
+dictionary value (or sub-value, in the case of
\fBTcl_DictObjPutKeyList\fR.)
.AP Tcl_Obj **valuePtrPtr out
Points to a variable that will have the value from a key/value pair
@@ -88,15 +88,15 @@ completed, and a zero otherwise.
Indicates the number of keys that will be supplied in the \fIkeyv\fR
array.
.AP "Tcl_Obj *const" *keyv in
-Array of \fIkeyc\fR pointers to objects that
+Array of \fIkeyc\fR pointers to values that
\fBTcl_DictObjPutKeyList\fR and \fBTcl_DictObjRemoveKeyList\fR will
use to locate the key/value pair to manipulate within the
-sub-dictionaries of the main dictionary object passed to them.
+sub-dictionaries of the main dictionary value passed to them.
.BE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
-Tcl dictionary objects have an internal representation that supports
+Tcl dictionary values have an internal representation that supports
efficient mapping from keys to values and which guarantees that the
particular ordering of keys within the dictionary remains the same
modulo any keys being deleted (which removes them from the order) or
@@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ keys of the dictionary, and each will be followed (in the odd-valued
index) by the value associated with that key.
.PP
The procedures described in this man page are used to
-create, modify, index, and iterate over dictionary objects from C code.
+create, modify, index, and iterate over dictionary values from C code.
.PP
-\fBTcl_NewDictObj\fR creates a new, empty dictionary object. The
-string representation of the object will be invalid, and the reference
-count of the object will be zero.
+\fBTcl_NewDictObj\fR creates a new, empty dictionary value. The
+string representation of the value will be invalid, and the reference
+count of the value will be zero.
.PP
\fBTcl_DictObjGet\fR looks up the given key within the given
dictionary and writes a pointer to the value associated with that key
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ if (\fBTcl_DictObjFirst\fR(interp, objPtr, &search,
for (; !done ; \fBTcl_DictObjNext\fR(&search, &key, &value, &done)) {
/*
* Note that strcmp() is not a good way of comparing
- * objects and is just used here for demonstration
+ * values and is just used here for demonstration
* purposes.
*/
if (!strcmp(Tcl_GetString(key), Tcl_GetString(value))) {
@@ -231,4 +231,4 @@ return TCL_OK;
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Tcl_NewObj, Tcl_DecrRefCount, Tcl_IncrRefCount, Tcl_InitObjHashTable
.SH KEYWORDS
-dict, dict object, dictionary, dictionary object, hash table, iteration, object
+dict, dict value, dictionary, dictionary value, hash table, iteration, value