In this paper, we show that the main results of the local convergence theory for least-change secant update methods of Dennis and Walker (SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 18 (1981), 949-987) can be proved using the theory introduced recently by Martinez (Math. Comp. 55 (1990), 143-167). In addition, we exhibit two generalizations of well-known methods whose local convergence can be easily proved using Martinez's theory.59200457481