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diff --git a/doc/ExprLong.3 b/doc/ExprLong.3
index ead98f5..ef93284 100644
--- a/doc/ExprLong.3
+++ b/doc/ExprLong.3
@@ -15,23 +15,21 @@ Tcl_ExprLong, Tcl_ExprDouble, Tcl_ExprBoolean, Tcl_ExprString \- evaluate an exp
\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
.sp
int
-\fBTcl_ExprLong\fR(\fIinterp, string, longPtr\fR)
+\fBTcl_ExprLong\fR(\fIinterp, expr, longPtr\fR)
.sp
int
-\fBTcl_ExprDouble\fR(\fIinterp, string, doublePtr\fR)
+\fBTcl_ExprDouble\fR(\fIinterp, expr, doublePtr\fR)
.sp
int
-\fBTcl_ExprBoolean\fR(\fIinterp, string, booleanPtr\fR)
+\fBTcl_ExprBoolean\fR(\fIinterp, expr, booleanPtr\fR)
.sp
int
-\fBTcl_ExprString\fR(\fIinterp, string\fR)
+\fBTcl_ExprString\fR(\fIinterp, expr\fR)
.SH ARGUMENTS
-.AS Tcl_Interp *booleanPtr
+.AS Tcl_Interp *booleanPtr out
.AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
-Interpreter in whose context to evaluate \fIstring\fR.
-.VS 8.4
-.AP "CONST char" *string in
-.VE
+Interpreter in whose context to evaluate \fIexpr\fR.
+.AP "const char" *expr in
Expression to be evaluated.
.AP long *longPtr out
Pointer to location in which to store the integer value of the
@@ -47,7 +45,7 @@ expression.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
These four procedures all evaluate the expression
-given by the \fIstring\fR argument
+given by the \fIexpr\fR argument
and return the result in one of four different forms.
The expression can have any of the forms accepted by the \fBexpr\fR command.
Note that these procedures have been largely replaced by the
@@ -92,7 +90,11 @@ number, then they store 0 at \fI*booleanPtr\fR if
the value was zero and 1 otherwise.
If the expression's actual value is a non-numeric string then
it must be one of the values accepted by \fBTcl_GetBoolean\fR
-such as ``yes'' or ``no'', or else an error occurs.
+such as
+.QW yes
+or
+.QW no ,
+or else an error occurs.
.PP
\fBTcl_ExprString\fR returns the value of the expression as a
string stored in the interpreter's result.