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Integrating my changes, mostly minor/cosmetic fixes; plus a big Windows lib update

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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Nimrod Standard Library
Though the Nimrod Standard Library is still evolving, it is already quite
usable. It is divided into *pure libraries*, *impure libraries* and *wrappers*.
Pure libraries do not depend on any external ``*.dll`` or ``lib*.so`` binary
Pure libraries do not depend on any external ``*.dll`` or ``lib*.so`` binary
while impure libraries do. A wrapper is an impure library that is a very
low-level interface to a C library.
@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Core
implicitly by the compiler. Do not import it directly. It relies on compiler
magic to work.
* `macros <macros.html>`_
* `macros <macros.html>`_
Contains the AST API and documentation of Nimrod for writing macros.
@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ String handling
---------------
* `strutils <strutils.html>`_
This module contains common string handling operations like converting a
string into uppercase, splitting a string into substrings, searching for
This module contains common string handling operations like changing
case of a string, splitting a string into substrings, searching for
substrings, replacing substrings.
* `parseutils <parseutils.html>`_
@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ String handling
style-insensitive mode. An efficient string substitution operator ``%``
for the string table is also provided.
* `unicode <unicode.html>`_
* `unicode <unicode.html>`_
This module provides support to handle the Unicode UTF-8 encoding.
* `re <re.html>`_
@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ String handling
Ropes can represent very long strings efficiently; especially concatenation
is done in O(1) instead of O(n).
* `unidecode <unidecode.html>`_
* `unidecode <unidecode.html>`_
This module provides Unicode to ASCII transliterations:
It finds the sequence of ASCII characters that is the closest approximation
to the Unicode string.
Generic Operating System Services
---------------------------------
@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Generic Operating System Services
may provide other implementations for this standard stream interface.
* `terminal <terminal.html>`_
This module contains a few procedures to control the *terminal*
(also called *console*). The implementation simply uses ANSI escape
This module contains a few procedures to control the *terminal*
(also called *console*). The implementation simply uses ANSI escape
sequences and does not depend on any other module.
@ -117,20 +117,20 @@ Internet Protocols and Support
------------------------------
* `cgi <cgi.html>`_
This module implements helpers for CGI applictions.
This module implements helpers for CGI applictions.
* `sockets <sockets.html>`_
This module implements a simple portable type-safe sockets layer.
* `browsers <browsers.html>`_
This module implements procs for opening URLs with the user's default
This module implements procs for opening URLs with the user's default
browser.
* `httpserver <httpserver.html>`_
This module implements a simple HTTP server.
* `httpclient <httpclient.html>`_
This module implements a simple HTTP client.
This module implements a simple HTTP client.
Parsers
@ -149,14 +149,14 @@ Parsers
as in the Nimrod programming language.
* `parsexml <parsexml.html>`_
The ``parsexml`` module implements a simple high performance XML/HTML parser.
The ``parsexml`` module implements a simple high performance XML/HTML parser.
The only encoding that is supported is UTF-8. The parser has been designed
to be somewhat error correcting, so that even some "wild HTML" found on the
web can be parsed with it.
to be somewhat error correcting, so that even some "wild HTML" found on the
Web can be parsed with it.
* `parsecsv <parsecsv.html>`_
* `parsecsv <parsecsv.html>`_
The ``parsecsv`` module implements a simple high performance CSV parser.
* `parsesql <parsesql.html>`_
The ``parsesql`` module implements a simple high performance SQL parser.
@ -168,20 +168,20 @@ Parsers
XML Processing
--------------
* `xmldom <xmldom.html>`_
* `xmldom <xmldom.html>`_
This module implements the XML DOM Level 2.
* `xmldomparser <xmldomparser.html>`_
This module parses an XML Document into a XML DOM Document representation.
* `xmltree <xmltree.html>`_
A simple XML tree. More efficient and simpler than the DOM. It also
A simple XML tree. More efficient and simpler than the DOM. It also
contains a macro for XML/HTML code generation.
* `xmlparser <xmlparser.html>`_
* `xmlparser <xmlparser.html>`_
This module parses an XML document and creates its XML tree representation.
* `htmlparser <htmlparser.html>`_
* `htmlparser <htmlparser.html>`_
This module parses an HTML document and creates its XML tree representation.
@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ Cryptography and Hashing
Multimedia support
------------------
* `colors <colors.html>`_
This module implements color handling for Nimrod. It is used by
* `colors <colors.html>`_
This module implements color handling for Nimrod. It is used by
the ``graphics`` module.
@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ Impure libraries
* `graphics <graphics.html>`_
This module implements graphical output for Nimrod; the current
implementation uses SDL but the interface is meant to support multiple
backends some day.
backends some day.
* `dialogs <dialogs.html>`_
This module implements portable dialogs for Nimrod; the implementation
@ -220,10 +220,10 @@ Impure libraries
* `zipfiles <zipfiles.html>`_
This module implements a zip archive creator/reader/modifier.
* `web <web.html>`_
This module contains simple high-level procedures for dealing with the
web like loading the contents of a web page from an URL.
Web like loading the contents of a Web page from an URL.
Database support
@ -232,13 +232,13 @@ Database support
* `db_postgres <db_postgres.html>`_
A higher level PostgreSQL database wrapper. The same interface is implemented
for other databases too.
* `db_mysql <db_mysql.html>`_
A higher level mySQL database wrapper. The same interface is implemented
A higher level MySQL database wrapper. The same interface is implemented
for other databases too.
* `db_sqlite <db_sqlite.html>`_
A higher level mySQL database wrapper. The same interface is implemented
A higher level SQLite database wrapper. The same interface is implemented
for other databases too.
@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ not contained in the distribution. You can then find them on the website.
Contains a wrapper for the Win32 API.
* `mysql <mysql.html>`_
Contains a wrapper for the mySQL API.
* `sqlite3 <sqlite3.html>`_
* `sqlite3 <sqlite3.html>`_
Contains a wrapper for SQLite 3 API.
* `libcurl <libcurl.html>`_
Contains a wrapper for the libcurl library.
@ -317,14 +317,14 @@ not contained in the distribution. You can then find them on the website.
Part of the wrapper for Lua.
* `lauxlib <lauxlib.html>`_
Part of the wrapper for Lua.
* `tcl <tcl.html>`_
* `tcl <tcl.html>`_
Wrapper for the TCL programming language.
* `python <python.html>`_
Wrapper for the Python programming language.
* `odbcsql <odbcsql.html>`_
interface to the ODBC driver.
* `zlib <zlib.html>`_
Wrapper for the zlib library.
Wrapper for the zlib library.
* `sdl <sdl.html>`_
Part of the wrapper for SDL.
* `sdl_gfx <sdl_gfx.html>`_
@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ not contained in the distribution. You can then find them on the website.
Part of the wrapper for X11.
* `libzip <libzip.html>`_
Interface to the `lib zip <http://www.nih.at/libzip/index.html>`_ library by
Dieter Baron and Thomas Klausner.
* `iup <iup.html>`_
Dieter Baron and Thomas Klausner.
* `iup <iup.html>`_
Wrapper of the IUP GUI library.