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-rw-r--r--doc/ref/scheme-binding.texi4
-rw-r--r--doc/ref/scheme-procedures.texi13
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ref/scheme-binding.texi b/doc/ref/scheme-binding.texi
index 23786b3bf..987779c22 100644
--- a/doc/ref/scheme-binding.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/scheme-binding.texi
@@ -263,9 +263,7 @@ with duplicate bindings.
@section Querying variable bindings
Guile provides a procedure for checking whether a symbol is bound in the
-top level environment. If you want to test whether a symbol is locally
-bound in expression, you can use the @code{bound?} macro from the module
-@code{(ice-9 optargs)}, documented in @ref{Optional Arguments}.
+top level environment.
@c NJFIXME explain [env]
@deffn {Scheme Procedure} defined? sym [env]
diff --git a/doc/ref/scheme-procedures.texi b/doc/ref/scheme-procedures.texi
index 36f840ecc..8c08b387c 100644
--- a/doc/ref/scheme-procedures.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/scheme-procedures.texi
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ the scsh macros of the same name, but are slightly extended. Each of
procedures these are used from. The items in @var{rest-arg} are
sequentially bound to the variable names are given. When @var{rest-arg}
runs out, the remaining vars are bound either to the default values or
-left unbound if no default value was specified. @var{rest-arg} remains
+@code{#f} if no default value was specified. @var{rest-arg} remains
bound to whatever may have been left of @var{rest-arg}.
After binding the variables, the expressions @var{expr} @dots{} are
@@ -211,8 +211,7 @@ parameter list, but before any dotted rest argument. For example,
creates a procedure with fixed arguments @var{a} and @var{b}, optional
arguments @var{c} and @var{d}, and rest argument @var{e}. If the
optional arguments are omitted in a call, the variables for them are
-unbound in the procedure. This can be checked with the @code{bound?}
-macro (documented below).
+bound to @code{#f}.
@code{lambda*} can also take keyword arguments. For example, a procedure
defined like this:
@@ -263,14 +262,6 @@ more similarity to DSSSL, MIT-Scheme and Kawa among others, as well as
for refugees from other Lisp dialects.
@end deffn
-@deffn {library syntax} bound? variable
-Check if a variable is bound in the current environment.
-
-The procedure @code{defined?} doesn't quite cut it as it stands, since
-it only checks bindings in the top-level environment, not those in local
-scope only.
-@end deffn
-
@node define* Reference
@subsection define* Reference