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diff --git a/doc/lib.txt b/doc/lib.txt index 227a73405..fa29ff6ff 100755 --- a/doc/lib.txt +++ b/doc/lib.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Nimrod Standard Library Though the Nimrod Standard Library is still evolving, it is already quite usable. It is divided into *pure libraries*, *impure libraries* and *wrappers*. -Pure libraries do not depend on any external ``*.dll`` or ``lib*.so`` binary +Pure libraries do not depend on any external ``*.dll`` or ``lib*.so`` binary while impure libraries do. A wrapper is an impure library that is a very low-level interface to a C library. @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Core implicitly by the compiler. Do not import it directly. It relies on compiler magic to work. -* `macros <macros.html>`_ +* `macros <macros.html>`_ Contains the AST API and documentation of Nimrod for writing macros. @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ String handling --------------- * `strutils <strutils.html>`_ - This module contains common string handling operations like converting a - string into uppercase, splitting a string into substrings, searching for + This module contains common string handling operations like changing + case of a string, splitting a string into substrings, searching for substrings, replacing substrings. * `parseutils <parseutils.html>`_ @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ String handling style-insensitive mode. An efficient string substitution operator ``%`` for the string table is also provided. -* `unicode <unicode.html>`_ +* `unicode <unicode.html>`_ This module provides support to handle the Unicode UTF-8 encoding. * `re <re.html>`_ @@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ String handling Ropes can represent very long strings efficiently; especially concatenation is done in O(1) instead of O(n). -* `unidecode <unidecode.html>`_ +* `unidecode <unidecode.html>`_ This module provides Unicode to ASCII transliterations: It finds the sequence of ASCII characters that is the closest approximation to the Unicode string. - + Generic Operating System Services --------------------------------- @@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Generic Operating System Services may provide other implementations for this standard stream interface. * `terminal <terminal.html>`_ - This module contains a few procedures to control the *terminal* - (also called *console*). The implementation simply uses ANSI escape + This module contains a few procedures to control the *terminal* + (also called *console*). The implementation simply uses ANSI escape sequences and does not depend on any other module. @@ -117,20 +117,20 @@ Internet Protocols and Support ------------------------------ * `cgi <cgi.html>`_ - This module implements helpers for CGI applictions. + This module implements helpers for CGI applictions. * `sockets <sockets.html>`_ This module implements a simple portable type-safe sockets layer. * `browsers <browsers.html>`_ - This module implements procs for opening URLs with the user's default + This module implements procs for opening URLs with the user's default browser. - + * `httpserver <httpserver.html>`_ This module implements a simple HTTP server. - + * `httpclient <httpclient.html>`_ - This module implements a simple HTTP client. + This module implements a simple HTTP client. Parsers @@ -149,14 +149,14 @@ Parsers as in the Nimrod programming language. * `parsexml <parsexml.html>`_ - The ``parsexml`` module implements a simple high performance XML/HTML parser. + The ``parsexml`` module implements a simple high performance XML/HTML parser. The only encoding that is supported is UTF-8. The parser has been designed - to be somewhat error correcting, so that even some "wild HTML" found on the - web can be parsed with it. + to be somewhat error correcting, so that even some "wild HTML" found on the + Web can be parsed with it. -* `parsecsv <parsecsv.html>`_ +* `parsecsv <parsecsv.html>`_ The ``parsecsv`` module implements a simple high performance CSV parser. - + * `parsesql <parsesql.html>`_ The ``parsesql`` module implements a simple high performance SQL parser. @@ -168,20 +168,20 @@ Parsers XML Processing -------------- -* `xmldom <xmldom.html>`_ +* `xmldom <xmldom.html>`_ This module implements the XML DOM Level 2. * `xmldomparser <xmldomparser.html>`_ This module parses an XML Document into a XML DOM Document representation. * `xmltree <xmltree.html>`_ - A simple XML tree. More efficient and simpler than the DOM. It also + A simple XML tree. More efficient and simpler than the DOM. It also contains a macro for XML/HTML code generation. -* `xmlparser <xmlparser.html>`_ +* `xmlparser <xmlparser.html>`_ This module parses an XML document and creates its XML tree representation. - -* `htmlparser <htmlparser.html>`_ + +* `htmlparser <htmlparser.html>`_ This module parses an HTML document and creates its XML tree representation. @@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ Cryptography and Hashing Multimedia support ------------------ -* `colors <colors.html>`_ - This module implements color handling for Nimrod. It is used by +* `colors <colors.html>`_ + This module implements color handling for Nimrod. It is used by the ``graphics`` module. @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ Impure libraries * `graphics <graphics.html>`_ This module implements graphical output for Nimrod; the current implementation uses SDL but the interface is meant to support multiple - backends some day. + backends some day. * `dialogs <dialogs.html>`_ This module implements portable dialogs for Nimrod; the implementation @@ -220,10 +220,10 @@ Impure libraries * `zipfiles <zipfiles.html>`_ This module implements a zip archive creator/reader/modifier. - + * `web <web.html>`_ This module contains simple high-level procedures for dealing with the - web like loading the contents of a web page from an URL. + Web like loading the contents of a Web page from an URL. Database support @@ -232,11 +232,11 @@ Database support * `db_postgres <db_postgres.html>`_ A higher level PostgreSQL database wrapper. The same interface is implemented for other databases too. - + * `db_mysql <db_mysql.html>`_ - A higher level mySQL database wrapper. The same interface is implemented + A higher level MySQL database wrapper. The same interface is implemented for other databases too. - + * `db_sqlite <db_sqlite.html>`_ A higher level SQLite database wrapper. The same interface is implemented for other databases too. @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ not contained in the distribution. You can then find them on the website. Contains a wrapper for the Win32 API. * `mysql <mysql.html>`_ Contains a wrapper for the mySQL API. -* `sqlite3 <sqlite3.html>`_ +* `sqlite3 <sqlite3.html>`_ Contains a wrapper for SQLite 3 API. * `libcurl <libcurl.html>`_ Contains a wrapper for the libcurl library. @@ -317,14 +317,14 @@ not contained in the distribution. You can then find them on the website. Part of the wrapper for Lua. * `lauxlib <lauxlib.html>`_ Part of the wrapper for Lua. -* `tcl <tcl.html>`_ +* `tcl <tcl.html>`_ Wrapper for the TCL programming language. * `python <python.html>`_ Wrapper for the Python programming language. * `odbcsql <odbcsql.html>`_ interface to the ODBC driver. * `zlib <zlib.html>`_ - Wrapper for the zlib library. + Wrapper for the zlib library. * `sdl <sdl.html>`_ Part of the wrapper for SDL. * `sdl_gfx <sdl_gfx.html>`_ @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ not contained in the distribution. You can then find them on the website. Part of the wrapper for X11. * `libzip <libzip.html>`_ Interface to the `lib zip <http://www.nih.at/libzip/index.html>`_ library by - Dieter Baron and Thomas Klausner. -* `iup <iup.html>`_ + Dieter Baron and Thomas Klausner. +* `iup <iup.html>`_ Wrapper of the IUP GUI library. - + |