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Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 16 |
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 = <<1,2,3>> 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 |