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doc: clarify sentence in event loop doc

Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8370#discussion-diff-77201863
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8400
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com>
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Luigi Pinca 8 years ago
committed by James M Snell
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      doc/topics/the-event-loop-timers-and-nexttick.md

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doc/topics/the-event-loop-timers-and-nexttick.md

@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ order of operations.
│ ┌──────────┴────────────┐ │ incoming: │
│ │ poll │<─────┤ connections, │
│ └──────────┬────────────┘ │ data, etc. │
│ ┌──────────┴────────────┐ └───────────────┘
│ ┌──────────┴────────────┐ └───────────────┘
│ │ check │
│ └──────────┬────────────┘
│ ┌──────────┴────────────┐
└──┤ close callbacks │
└───────────────────────┘
└───────────────────────┘
*note: each box will be referred to as a "phase" of the event loop.*
@ -69,11 +69,12 @@ actually uses - are those above._
* **timers**: this phase executes callbacks scheduled by `setTimeout()`
and `setInterval()`.
* **I/O callbacks**: most types of callback except timers, `setImmediate()`, close
* **idle, prepare**: only used internally
* **poll**: retrieve new I/O events; node will block here when appropriate
* **check**: `setImmediate()` callbacks are invoked here
* **close callbacks**: e.g socket.on('close', ...)
* **I/O callbacks**: executes almost all callbacks with the exception of
close callbacks, the ones scheduled by timers, and `setImmediate()`.
* **idle, prepare**: only used internally.
* **poll**: retrieve new I/O events; node will block here when appropriate.
* **check**: `setImmediate()` callbacks are invoked here.
* **close callbacks**: e.g. `socket.on('close', ...)`.
Between each run of the event loop, Node.js checks if it is waiting for
any asynchronous I/O or timers and shuts down cleanly if there are not

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