tuned comments;
authorwenzelm
Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:52:27 +0200
changeset 74165 86163ea20e77
parent 74164 7b93dc3f2b34
child 74166 ff3dbb2be924
tuned comments;
src/Pure/General/position.ML
--- a/src/Pure/General/position.ML	Sun Aug 22 11:47:37 2021 +0200
+++ b/src/Pure/General/position.ML	Sun Aug 22 17:52:27 2021 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 (*  Title:      Pure/General/position.ML
-    Author:     Markus Wenzel, TU Muenchen
+    Author:     Makarius
 
-Source positions: counting Isabelle symbols, starting from 1.
+Source positions starting from 1; values <= 0 mean "absent". Count Isabelle
+symbols, not UTF8 bytes nor UTF16 characters. Position range specifies a
+right-open interval offset .. end_offset (exclusive).
 *)
 
 signature POSITION =