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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Adrian Aichner <aichner@ecf.teradyne.com>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Typos in doctring of (random)
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>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Aichner <aichner@ecf.teradyne.com> writes:

Adrian> How do I properly report a minor bug like this without annoying
Adrian> everybody on the list?

It would be real nice, if for trivial things, folks could do the extra
work and actually make a patch, and send to Steven, as below.

Adrian> I was not able to locate where (random) is defined.

grep (or etags) is your friend.

Adrian> Please note the stray ".n"'s at the end of three of the following
Adrian> lines.

Here's the trivial patch:

*** /tmp/geta26838	Wed Feb 26 16:56:52 1997
--- fns.c	Wed Feb 26 16:56:50 1997
***************
*** 123,131 ****
  
  DEFUN ("random", Frandom, 0, 1, 0, /*
  Return a pseudo-random number.
! All integers representable in Lisp are equally likely.\n\
!   On most systems, this is 28 bits' worth.\n\
! With positive integer argument N, return random number in interval [0,N).\n\
  With argument t, set the random number seed from the current time and pid.
  */
         (limit))
--- 123,131 ----
  
  DEFUN ("random", Frandom, 0, 1, 0, /*
  Return a pseudo-random number.
! All integers representable in Lisp are equally likely.
!   On most systems, this is 28 bits' worth.
! With positive integer argument N, return random number in interval [0,N).
  With argument t, set the random number seed from the current time and pid.
  */
         (limit))

