11/376: Rephrase @ operator description

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to tag 1.8
in repository guix.

commit 8ea9fd7aa6b2152f95724e504ac61c57d90b113c
Author: Adam Szkoda <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun May 25 10:54:54 2014 +0200

    Rephrase @ operator description
---
 doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml |    7 +++----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml 
b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
index 5585e89..6db2adc 100644
--- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
@@ -1060,15 +1060,14 @@ map (concat "foo") [ "bar" "bla" "abc" 
]</programlisting>
   and <varname>z</varname>.</para></listitem>
 
 
-  <listitem><para>An <literal>@</literal>-pattern requires that the
-  argument matches with the patterns on the left- and right-hand side
-  of the <literal>@</literal>-sign.  For example:
+  <listitem><para>An <literal>@</literal>-pattern provides a means of referring
+  to the whole value being matched:
 
 <programlisting>
 address@hidden x, y, z, ... }: z + y + x + args.a</programlisting>
 
   Here <varname>args</varname> is bound to the entire argument, which
-  is further matches against the pattern <literal>{ x, y, z,
+  is further matched against the pattern <literal>{ x, y, z,
   ... }</literal>.</para></listitem>