From f42d6fa4a3db1d53f83b9dd805aaccfce037c065 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jesse W. Collins" Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 15:17:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc: excise "periodically" before "emit events" "periodically" implies regular time intervals between emitted events, but as first example, "peer connects", implies, the time intervals may be irregular or unpredictable. PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20581 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt --- doc/api/events.md | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/api/events.md b/doc/api/events.md index 536a87d1b46e0f..8b3cb966afd274 100644 --- a/doc/api/events.md +++ b/doc/api/events.md @@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ Much of the Node.js core API is built around an idiomatic asynchronous event-driven architecture in which certain kinds of objects (called "emitters") -periodically emit named events that cause `Function` objects ("listeners") to be -called. +emit named events that cause `Function` objects ("listeners") to be called. For instance: a [`net.Server`][] object emits an event each time a peer connects to it; a [`fs.ReadStream`][] emits an event when the file is opened;