[m-rev.] for review: cleaning up and documenting I/O tabling

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Sun Oct 27 01:55:59 AEST 2002


On 21-Oct-2002, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> +++ doc/user_guide.texi
> @@ -1989,6 +1989,10 @@
>  with the @samp{table_io start} command in mdb.
>  
>  The purpose of I/O tabling is to enable transparent retries across I/O actions.
> +(The mdb @samp{retry} command
> +restores the computation to a state it had earlier,
> +allowing the programmer to explore code that the program has already executed;
> +see its documentation in the Debugger commands section below.)

You might want to consider using a link (@xref, @pxref, or @ref)
so that the user can follow this cross-reference more easily,
especially in the HTML and info versions of the manual.

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