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authorRich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>2019-10-23 21:28:42 -0700
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The use of dashes -- in general, but especially in our docs -- can be problematic. It is used inconsistently and there is always another form of punctuation that is as good or better for the situation. In an effort to reduce the number of variations we use to display the same types of information, remove the various uses of dashes from the documentation. PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/30101 Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com> Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com> Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ second section explains how to create new types of streams.
There are four fundamental stream types within Node.js:
-* [`Writable`][] - streams to which data can be written (for example,
+* [`Writable`][]: streams to which data can be written (for example,
[`fs.createWriteStream()`][]).
-* [`Readable`][] - streams from which data can be read (for example,
+* [`Readable`][]: streams from which data can be read (for example,
[`fs.createReadStream()`][]).
-* [`Duplex`][] - streams that are both `Readable` and `Writable` (for example,
+* [`Duplex`][]: streams that are both `Readable` and `Writable` (for example,
[`net.Socket`][]).
-* [`Transform`][] - `Duplex` streams that can modify or transform the data as it
+* [`Transform`][]: `Duplex` streams that can modify or transform the data as it
is written and read (for example, [`zlib.createDeflate()`][]).
Additionally, this module includes the utility functions
@@ -2508,7 +2508,7 @@ user programs.
[`stream.write()`][stream-write].
* `encoding` {string} If the chunk is a string, then this is the
encoding type. If chunk is a buffer, then this is the special
- value - `'buffer'`, ignore it in this case.
+ value `'buffer'`. Ignore it in that case.
* `callback` {Function} A callback function (optionally with an error
argument and data) to be called after the supplied `chunk` has been
processed.