From 042e240c21ef3d4b3567b3158f3c0dbbcf6cacfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Larsson Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:16:01 +0100 Subject: system: Fix documentation typoes --- system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'system') diff --git a/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml b/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml index 96876ea513..1c7671496b 100644 --- a/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml +++ b/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ list_length([First | Rest]) -> or "structs" in other languages and we use lists when we want to represent things which have varying sizes, (i.e. where we would use linked lists in other languages).

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Erlang does not have a string date type, instead strings can be +

Erlang does not have a string data type, instead strings can be represented by lists of ASCII characters. So the list [97,98,99] is equivalent to "abc". The Erlang shell is "clever" and guesses the what sort of list we mean and outputs it @@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ month_length(Year, Month) -> Built In Functions (BIFs)

Built in functions BIFs are functions which for some reason is built in to the Erlang virtual machine. BIFs often implement - functionality that is impossible to implement in Erlang or is to + functionality that is impossible to implement in Erlang or is too inefficient to implement in Erlang. Some BIFs can be called by use of the function name only but they are by default belonging to the erlang module so for example the call to the BIF trunc -- cgit v1.2.3