Description of long(): A string parameter is no longer required to be

                        *decimal*.

This closes SF bug #127273.

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index 7ffc2ea25723a9f5947e2a542068e41231d34084..2f8dcf9afe4a7ad4036cba048a9b6e37ea28ffc5 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ the interpreter.
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{long}{x\optional{, radix}}
   Convert a string or number to a long integer.  If the argument is a
-  string, it must contain a possibly signed decimal number of
+  string, it must contain a possibly signed number of
   arbitrary size, possibly embedded in whitespace;
   this behaves identical to \code{string.atol(\var{x})}.  The
   \var{radix} argument is interpreted in the same way as for