[plt-scheme] Possible mistake in the documentation of call/ec

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 2 07:29:57 EST 2008

At Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:17:06 +0100, Thomas Chust wrote:
> the documentation of PLT Scheme 4.1.2, section 9.4, states that the
> procedure call-with-escape-continuation and its alias call/ec take one
> or two arguments.
> 
> However, an experiment at the REPL shows that call/ec accepts only one
> argument. As far as I understand, it would also be rather pointless to
> specify a delimiting prompt tag for an escape continuation.
> 
> Therefore I think the procedure behaves correctly and this is probably a
> small mistake in the documentation.

Right - fixed in SVN.


Thanks,
Matthew



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