From e51f848f75dbec6a355d08cbf214940dfb75b6ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Barzilay <eli@racket-lang.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 07:29:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] explanation

svn: r6872
---
 collects/syntax/doc.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/collects/syntax/doc.txt b/collects/syntax/doc.txt
index 0dc88b2097..352149df59 100644
--- a/collects/syntax/doc.txt
+++ b/collects/syntax/doc.txt
@@ -453,6 +453,10 @@ _readerr.ss_: signaling parse errors
   known), and `span-k' is #f or a non-negative exact integer for an
   item range starting from the indicated position.
 
+  The usual location values should point at the beginning of whatever
+  it is you were reading, and the span usually goes to the point the
+  error was discovered.
+
 > (raise-read-eof-error msg-string source-v line-k col-k pos-k span-k)
 
   Like `raise-read-error', but raises