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authorBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2012-02-02 09:24:52 +0100
committerBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2012-02-07 08:12:17 +0100
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erlang.xml: Fix a few typos and grammatical errors
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 8c01d77721..a21021d864 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@
representation of <c>Atom</c>. If <c>Encoding</c>
is <c>latin1</c>, there will be one byte for each character
in the text representation. If <c>Encoding</c> is <c>utf8</c> or
- <c>unicode</c>, the characters will encoded using UTF-8
+ <c>unicode</c>, the characters will be encoded using UTF-8
(meaning that characters from 16#80 up to 0xFF will be
- encode in two bytes).</p>
+ encoded in two bytes).</p>
<note><p>Currently, <c>atom_to_binary(Atom, latin1)</c> can
never fail because the text representation of an atom can only contain
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
<p>If <c>PosLen</c> in any way references outside the binary, a <c>badarg</c> exception is raised.</p>
- <p><c>Start</c> is zero-based, i.e:</p>
+ <p><c>Start</c> is zero-based, i.e.:</p>
<code>
1> Bin = &lt;&lt;1,2,3&gt;&gt;
2> binary_part(Bin,{0,2}).
@@ -773,9 +773,9 @@ false</pre>
turned off, nothing happens.</p>
<p>Once <c>demonitor(MonitorRef)</c> has returned it is
guaranteed that no <c>{'DOWN', MonitorRef, _, _, _}</c> message
- due to the monitor will be placed in the callers message queue
+ due to the monitor will be placed in the caller's message queue
in the future. A <c>{'DOWN', MonitorRef, _, _, _}</c> message
- might have been placed in the callers message queue prior to
+ might have been placed in the caller's message queue prior to
the call, though. Therefore, in most cases, it is advisable
to remove such a <c>'DOWN'</c> message from the message queue
after monitoring has been stopped.
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ false</pre>
<tag><c>flush</c></tag>
<item>
<p>Remove (one) <c>{_, MonitorRef, _, _, _}</c> message,
- if there is one, from the callers message queue after
+ if there is one, from the caller's message queue after
monitoring has been stopped.</p>
<p>Calling <c>demonitor(MonitorRef, [flush])</c>
is equivalent to the following, but more efficient:</p>
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ false</pre>
<item><p>The monitor was not found and could not be removed.
This probably because someone already has placed a
<c>'DOWN'</c> message corresponding to this monitor
- in the callers message queue.
+ in the caller's message queue.
</p>
</item>
</taglist>
@@ -7090,7 +7090,7 @@ true</pre>
<c>Id</c> has no effect on the caller in the future (unless
the link is setup again). If caller is trapping exits, an
<c>{'EXIT', Id, _}</c> message due to the link might have
- been placed in the callers message queue prior to the call,
+ been placed in the caller's message queue prior to the call,
though. Note, the <c>{'EXIT', Id, _}</c> message can be the
result of the link, but can also be the result of <c>Id</c>
calling <c>exit/2</c>. Therefore, it <em>may</em> be