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diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml
index 27cd0ba83d..f517259a64 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/typespec.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2003</year><year>2018</year>
+ <year>2003</year><year>2019</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -140,8 +140,7 @@
| nonempty_improper_list(Type1, Type2) %% Type1 and Type2 as above
| nonempty_list(Type) %% Proper non-empty list
- Map :: map() %% denotes a map of any size
- | #{} %% denotes the empty map
+ Map :: #{} %% denotes the empty map
| #{AssociationList}
Tuple :: tuple() %% denotes a tuple of any size
@@ -192,17 +191,16 @@
<c>AssociationList</c> are allowed to overlap, and if they do, the
leftmost association takes precedence. A map association has a key in
<c>AssociationList</c> if it belongs to this type.
- <c>AssociationList</c> can contain both mandatory and optional
- association types.
+ <c>AssociationList</c> can contain both mandatory <c>(:=)</c> and
+ optional <c>(=&gt;)</c> association types.
If an association type is mandatory, an association with that type
- is to be present.
+ needs to be present.
In the case of an optional association type it is not required for
the key type to be present.
</p>
<p>
- Notice that the syntactic representation of <c>map()</c> is
- <c>#{any() =&gt; any()}</c> (or <c>#{_ =&gt; _}</c>), not <c>#{}</c>.
The notation <c>#{}</c> specifies the singleton type for the empty map.
+ Note that this notation is not a shorthand for the <c>map()</c> type.
</p>
<p>
For convenience, the following types are also built-in.
@@ -259,6 +257,9 @@
<cell><c>iolist()</c></cell><cell><c>maybe_improper_list(byte() | binary() | iolist(), binary() | [])</c></cell>
</row>
<row>
+ <cell><c>map()</c></cell><cell><c>#{any() =&gt; any()}</c></cell>
+ </row>
+ <row>
<cell><c>function()</c></cell><cell><c>fun()</c></cell>
</row>
<row>