--- a/doc-src/IsarImplementation/Thy/Prelim.thy Sat Nov 20 00:53:26 2010 +0100
+++ b/doc-src/IsarImplementation/Thy/Prelim.thy Sat Nov 20 01:07:16 2010 +0100
@@ -799,15 +799,15 @@
\end{description}
\paragraph{Historical note.} In the original SML90 standard the
- primitive ML type @{ML_type char} did not exists, and the basic @{ML
+ primitive ML type @{ML_type char} did not exists, and the @{ML_text
"explode: string -> string list"} operation would produce a list of
- singleton strings as in Isabelle/ML today. When SML97 came out,
- Isabelle did not adopt its slightly anachronistic 8-bit characters,
- but the idea of exploding a string into a list of small strings was
- extended to ``symbols'' as explained above. Thus Isabelle sources
- can refer to an infinite store of user-defined symbols, without
- having to worry about the multitude of Unicode encodings.
-*}
+ singleton strings as does @{ML "raw_explode: string -> string list"}
+ in Isabelle/ML today. When SML97 came out, Isabelle did not adopt
+ its slightly anachronistic 8-bit characters, but the idea of
+ exploding a string into a list of small strings was extended to
+ ``symbols'' as explained above. Thus Isabelle sources can refer to
+ an infinite store of user-defined symbols, without having to worry
+ about the multitude of Unicode encodings. *}
subsection {* Basic names \label{sec:basic-name} *}