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From 22b82684a2cf715b69d656be1e00778b6f119509 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rickard Green <rickard@erlang.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 23:01:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Reference manual: Improve documentation of the 'receive'
 expression

---
 system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
index c13e6f04c3..0dbbba6795 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
@@ -430,14 +430,15 @@ receive
 PatternN [when GuardSeqN] ->
 BodyN
 end</pre>
- Receives messages sent to the process using the send operator
- (!). The patterns <c>Pattern</c> are sequentially matched
- against the first message in time order in the mailbox, then
+ 
+ Fetches a received message present in the message queue of
+ the process. The patterns <c>Pattern</c> are sequentially matched
+ against the first message in time order in the message queue, then
 the second, and so on. If a match succeeds and the optional
 guard sequence <c>GuardSeq</c> is true, the corresponding
 <c>Body</c> is evaluated. The matching message is consumed, that
- is, removed from the mailbox, while any other messages in
- the mailbox remain unchanged.
+ is, removed from the mail queue, while any other messages in
+ the mail queue remain unchanged.
 The return value of <c>Body</c> is the return value of
 the <c>receive</c> expression.
 <c>receive</c> never fails. The execution is suspended, possibly
-- 
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