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OTP Guide Chapter 3: Sentence Construction #264

Closed augiedb closed 10 years ago

augiedb commented 10 years ago

This paragraph:

Since the registry process needs to monitor besides keeping the dictionary state, agents are not a good fit for modelling the registry. Instead, we will use a GenServer which is the go-to abstraction for building generic servers in both Elixir and OTP.

That first sentence before the comma is missing something or is unclear, but I'm not sure what. Maybe something like this:

Since the registry process needs to both monitor and keep the dictionary state, ...

Even in that sentence, the word "both" might be considered redundant, but I think it helps as you read along. Am I interpreting the meaning correctly?

josevalim commented 10 years ago

Yes, the meaning is correct. :) And we really want to emphasise that it is doing two things, so we can keep both in the sense or use and in italics (as you did above). Thanks for all the reviewing!

augiedb commented 10 years ago

And it looks like someone else already took care of this, so I'll close the issue. Thanks for the explanation!