NTH is obsolete.

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sperber 2002-01-07 13:04:14 +00:00
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@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ We now manage the project using SourceForge:
The default directory for creating temporary files changed: It's now
$TMPDIR if set and /var/tmp otherwise
The nth procedure is still there but is now officially obsolete. It
will go away in a future release.
** HTML version of the manual
There is now a HTML version of the scsh manual generated by tex2page

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\end{desc}
\section{List procedures}
\defun{nth}{list i}\object
\dfn{nth}{list i}{object}{procedure \textbf{(obsolete)}}
\begin{desc}
Returns the $i^{\mathrm th}$ element of \var{list}.
The first element (the car) is \ex{(nth \var{list} 0)},
@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ the second element is \ex{(nth \var{list} 1)}, and so on.
This procedure is provided as it is useful for accessing elements
from the lists returned by the field-readers (chapter~\ref{chapt:fr-awk}).
The functionality of \ex{nth} is equivalent to that of \R4RS{}'s
\ex{list-ref}. Therefore, \ex{nth} will go away in a future release.
\end{desc}