[DGD] Innacuracy with DGD read_file documentation.

[Felix A. Croes]

Steve Wooster <s.f.m.wooster+dgd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was having trouble getting whitelisted, so I figured I'd send this to
> the mailing list instead of directly to Dworkin...
>
> I think I've found a minor inaccuracy with the documentation for
> read_file. It says:
>
> ERRORS
>     If the offset is out of range or the returned string would be too
>     large, an error will result.
>
> However, from my own tests, it looks like it returns nil when the offset
> is out of range, instead of raising an error. I believe I'm using
> version 1.2.86 of DGD.

The documentation is not in accord with what the kfun does, but it
may be better to actually throw an error here -- and the same goes for
write_file().  I'll include the changes in the next patch.

Oh, and your request to be added to my email whitelist was received and
processed.

Regards,
Dworkin