elixir-lang/elixir-lang.github.com — pull request #5 by alco (2012-03-22 20:02:51+00:00)
Title: Fix issues in Chapter 3 of the guide

These are mostly grammar issues. I'm not a native speaker myself, but I'm very cautiously checking with google if my corrections actually make sense.

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I'm not sure if the term `lexical` is common in the Erlang community, but it just doesn't feel right to me. By itself, it has a very general meaning. Since you mean lexical scoping, it may be more appropriate to use `scoped` or `lexically scoped` instead, as in:

> As we are going to see below, they are called directives because they are the only functions in Elixir that **have lexical scope**.

as opposed to the current

> As we are going to see below, they are called directives because they are the only functions in Elixir that are lexical.