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diff --git a/doc/api/globals.markdown b/doc/api/globals.markdown index 5b0ed2d3f4..ab5a592891 100644 --- a/doc/api/globals.markdown +++ b/doc/api/globals.markdown @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ actually in the global scope but in the module scope - this will be noted. In browsers, the top-level scope is the global scope. That means that in browsers if you're in the global scope `var something` will define a global -variable. In io.js this is different. The top-level scope is not the global -scope; `var something` inside an io.js module will be local to that module. +variable. In Node.js this is different. The top-level scope is not the global +scope; `var something` inside an Node.js module will be local to that module. ## process @@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ Process files with the extension `.sjs` as `.js`: require.extensions['.sjs'] = require.extensions['.js']; **Deprecated** In the past, this list has been used to load -non-JavaScript modules into io.js by compiling them on-demand. +non-JavaScript modules into Node.js by compiling them on-demand. However, in practice, there are much better ways to do this, such as -loading modules via some other io.js program, or compiling them to +loading modules via some other Node.js program, or compiling them to JavaScript ahead of time. Since the Module system is locked, this feature will probably never go @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ of this code file. For a main program this is not necessarily the same filename used in the command line. The value inside a module is the path to that module file. -Example: running `iojs example.js` from `/Users/mjr` +Example: running `node example.js` from `/Users/mjr` console.log(__filename); // /Users/mjr/example.js @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Example: running `iojs example.js` from `/Users/mjr` The name of the directory that the currently executing script resides in. -Example: running `iojs example.js` from `/Users/mjr` +Example: running `node example.js` from `/Users/mjr` console.log(__dirname); // /Users/mjr |