[fpc-devel] [patch] ref.tex documentation fixes

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Attached is a patch that fixes a few grammar errors in the ref.tex file.

Thanks. Applied, rev 560.

>
>
> PS Michael:
> I must apologise. :-) Whenever I need to reference language or syntax
> documentation, it is second nature to fire up the Kylix 3 help. I was
> trying to understand packed records a bit better, but the Delphi and
> Kylix help was not very clear. I then viewed the FPC help - which
> answered all my questions. Great work! :-)

We do our best.

>
> PS #2:
> It's amazing how accessing relational databases to store and retrieve
> information makes a developer lazy. I had to access a binary data file
> via complex record structures and couldn't remember how to do it
> exactly, without first reading some documentation. Yet, when I started
> with Turbo Pascal years ago, it was all I did.  :-)

I think most administrative desktop app. programmers are in this boat :-)

Michael.