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| author | Willie Zhu <zhuwillie11@gmail.com> | 2015-10-31 15:27:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Willie Zhu <zhuwillie11@gmail.com> | 2015-10-31 15:35:33 -0400 |
| commit | 38506983bb1d589734268b62bb87b4bad4601733 (patch) | |
| tree | f825fe8c6827b25f90986af81072f7643ab0cdcf | |
| parent | 5b0db44e7c5f0a69dfa670eee13fbc011f76830a (diff) | |
[edn/en] Fix grammar
| -rw-r--r-- | edn.html.markdown | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/edn.html.markdown b/edn.html.markdown index 0a0dc9b5..d0bdddfc 100644 --- a/edn.html.markdown +++ b/edn.html.markdown @@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ contributors: - ["Jason Yeo", "https://github.com/jsyeo"] --- -Extensible Data Notation or EDN for short is a format for serializing data. +Extensible Data Notation (EDN) is a format for serializing data. -The notation is used internally by Clojure to represent programs and it also +The notation is used internally by Clojure to represent programs. It is also used as a data transfer format like JSON. Though it is more commonly used in -Clojure land, there are implementations of EDN for many other languages. +Clojure, there are implementations of EDN for many other languages. -The main benefit of EDN over JSON and YAML is that it is extensible, which we +The main benefit of EDN over JSON and YAML is that it is extensible. We will see how it is extended later on. ```Clojure @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ false ; Vectors allow random access [:gelato 1 2 -2] -; Maps are associative data structures that associates the key with its value +; Maps are associative data structures that associate the key with its value {:eggs 2 :lemon-juice 3.5 :butter 1} @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ false {[1 2 3 4] "tell the people what she wore", [5 6 7 8] "the more you see the more you hate"} -; You may use commas for readability. They are treated as whitespaces. +; You may use commas for readability. They are treated as whitespace. ; Sets are collections that contain unique elements. #{:a :b 88 "huat"} @@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ false #MyYelpClone/MenuItem {:name "eggs-benedict" :rating 10} ; Let me explain this with a clojure example. Suppose I want to transform that -; piece of edn into a MenuItem record. +; piece of EDN into a MenuItem record. (defrecord MenuItem [name rating]) -; To transform edn to clojure values, I will need to use the built in EDN +; To transform EDN to clojure values, I will need to use the built in EDN ; reader, edn/read-string (edn/read-string "{:eggs 2 :butter 1 :flour 5}") |