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diff --git a/doc/ref/api-data.texi b/doc/ref/api-data.texi index ccd34e38f..abcb28de1 100755 --- a/doc/ref/api-data.texi +++ b/doc/ref/api-data.texi @@ -1012,6 +1012,12 @@ zero. @rnindex number->string @rnindex string->number +The following procedures read and write numbers according to their +external representation as defined by R5RS (@pxref{Lexical structure, +R5RS Lexical Structure,, r5rs, The Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic +Language Scheme}). @xref{The ice-9 i18n Module, the @code{(ice-9 +i18n)} module}, for locale-dependent number parsing. + @deffn {Scheme Procedure} number->string n [radix] @deffnx {C Function} scm_number_to_string (n, radix) Return a string holding the external representation of the @@ -2943,7 +2949,8 @@ predicates (@pxref{Characters}), but are defined on character sequences. The first set is specified in R5RS and has names that end in @code{?}. The second set is specified in SRFI-13 and the names have no ending @code{?}. The predicates ending in @code{-ci} ignore the character case -when comparing strings. +when comparing strings. @xref{The ice-9 i18n Module, the @code{(ice-9 +i18n)} module}, for locale-dependent string comparison. @rnindex string=? @deffn {Scheme Procedure} string=? s1 s2 |