Commit 63bd0754 authored by Francois-Rene Rideau's avatar Francois-Rene Rideau
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Tweak manual.

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@@ -1960,8 +1960,9 @@ by traversing the dependency graph using function @code{make-plan}.@footnote{
  Historically, the function that built a plan was
  called @code{traverse}, and returned a list of actions;
  it was deprecated in favor of @code{make-plan} (that returns a plan object)
  when the @code{plan} objects were introduced;
  the old function is kept for backward compatibility and debugging purposes only.
  when the @code{plan} objects were introduced with ASDF 3;
  the old function is kept for backward compatibility and debugging purposes only,
  and may be removed in the near future.
}
The resulting plan object contains an ordered list of @emph{actions}.
An action is a pair of an @code{operation} and a @code{component},
@@ -1970,7 +1971,8 @@ The ordering of the plan ensures that no action is performed before
all its dependencies have been fulfilled.@footnote{
  The term @emph{action}
  was used by Kent Pitman in his article, ``The Description of Large Systems,''
  (@pxref{Bibliography}).
  (@pxref{Bibliography}),
  and we suspect might be traced to @code{make}.
  Although the term was only used by ASDF hackers starting with ASDF 2,
  the concept was there since the very beginning of ASDF 1,
  just not clearly articulated.