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authorTom Benner <[email protected]>2014-12-27 14:59:04 -0500
committerTom Benner <[email protected]>2014-12-28 14:39:38 -0500
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Fix grammar and formatting issues
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-rw-r--r--system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml6
-rw-r--r--system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml8
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml b/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml
index 0b7111f183..6c513162c0 100644
--- a/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml
+++ b/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ spawn(tut15, ping, [3, Pong_PID]),</code>
<code type="none">
tut15:ping(3, Pong_PID)</code>
<p>&lt;0.36.0&gt; is the return value from the <c>start</c> function.</p>
- <p>The process "pong" now does:</p>
+ <p>The process "pong" now does:</p>
<code type="none">
receive
finished ->
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Ping_PID ! pong</code>
Pid ! Message</code>
<p>I.e. <c>Message</c> (any Erlang term) is sent to the process
with identity <c>Pid</c>.</p>
- <p>After sending the message <c>pong</c>, to the process "ping",
+ <p>After sending the message <c>pong</c> to the process "ping",
"pong" calls the <c>pong</c> function again, which causes it to
get back to the <c>receive</c> again and wait for another message.
Now let's look at the process "ping". Recall that it was started
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ $ <input>chmod 400 .erlang.cookie</input></pre>
<p>The <c>chmod</c> above make the <c>.erlang.cookie</c> file
accessible only by the owner of the file. This is a requirement.</p>
<p>When you start an Erlang system which is going to talk to other
- Erlang systems, you must give it a name, eg: </p>
+ Erlang systems, you must give it a name, e.g.: </p>
<pre>
$ <input>erl -sname my_name</input></pre>
<p>We will see more details of this later. If you want to
diff --git a/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml b/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml
index 3636b23797..699b9487ed 100644
--- a/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml
+++ b/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ mult(X, Y) ->
called variables. Variables must start with a capital letter
(see the chapter
<seealso marker="doc/reference_manual:expressions">"Variables"</seealso>
- in the Erlang Reference Manual). Examples of variable could be
+ in the Erlang Reference Manual). Examples of variables could be
<c>Number</c>, <c>ShoeSize</c>, <c>Age</c> etc.</p>
</section>
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ convert(N, centimeter) ->
Consider:</p>
<code type="none">
tut2:convert(3, inch).</code>
- <p>Does this mean that 3 is in inches? or that 3 is in centimeters
+ <p>Does this mean that 3 is in inches? Or that 3 is in centimeters
and we want to convert it to inches? So Erlang has a way to group
things together to make things more understandable. We call these
<em>tuples</em>. Tuples are surrounded by "{" and "}".</p>
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ list_max([Head|Rest], Result_so_far) ->
the next part of the function.</p>
<p>Some useful operators in guards are, &lt; less than, &gt;
greater than, == equal, &gt;= greater or equal, =&lt; less or
- equal, /= not equal. (see the chapter
+ equal, /= not equal. (See the chapter
<seealso marker="doc/reference_manual:expressions">"Guard Sequences"</seealso> in the Erlang Reference Manual.)</p>
<p>To change the above program to one which works out the minimum
value of the element in a list, all we would need to do is to
@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ format_temps(List_of_cities) ->
<code type="none">
[City | convert_list_to_c(Rest)];</code>
<p>We go on doing this until we get to the end of the list (i.e.
- the list is empty:</p>
+ the list is empty):</p>
<code type="none">
convert_list_to_c([]) ->
[].</code>