From 630bf170ead85cfce5de05902357a31675917580 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emiel Bruijntjes <emiel.bruijntjes@copernica.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:38:07 +0100
Subject: documentation update

---
 documentation/special-features.html | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

(limited to 'documentation')

diff --git a/documentation/special-features.html b/documentation/special-features.html
index 763f30d..859431a 100644
--- a/documentation/special-features.html
+++ b/documentation/special-features.html
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
     conventions for many of the library features.
 </p>
 <p>
-    PHP uses <a href="magic-methods">magic methods</a> and 
+    In PHP scripts you can use <a href="magic-methods">magic methods</a> and 
     <a href="magic-interfaces">magic interfaces</a> to add special behavior to
-    classes. With C++ you can achieve the same, but by using technologies like
+    classes. With C++ classes you can achieve the same, but by using technologies like
     operator overloading, implicit constructors and casting operators. The
     PHP __invoke() method for example, is more or less identical to operator () 
     in C++. The question that we asked ourselves was whether we should automatically 
@@ -17,18 +17,22 @@
 <p>
     We have decided to follow the PHP conventions, and use magic methods
     and magic interfaces in C++ as well - although we must admit that having 
-    methods that start with two underscores does not make the code very
+    methods that start with two underscores does not make the code look very
     pretty. But by using magic methods the switch from PHP to C++ is kept simpler
     for starting C++ programmers. And on top of that, not all magic methods and
-    interfaces could have been implemented with core C++ features, so we did have 
-    to use <i>some</i> magic methods and/or interfaces anyway - so we could just
-    as well follow PHP completely in this.
+    interfaces could have been implemented with core C++ features (like operator
+    overloading), so we had to use <i>some</i> magic methods and/or interfaces 
+    anyway. That's why we decided that because we had to use _some_ magic methods 
+    in C++, we could just as well follow PHP completely and support _all_ magic 
+    PHP methods in C++ too.
 </p>
 <p>
-    Besides the magic methods and interfaces that are also available in PHP
-    user space, the Zend engine has additional features that are not exposed via 
-    magic methods, and that only are accessible for extension programmers. These
-    features available for extensions built with PHP-CPP.
+    Besides the magic methods and interfaces that are available in PHP
+    user space, the Zend engine has additional features that are not exposed to
+    PHP user space scripts. Features that are only accessible for extension 
+    programmers. The PHP-CPP library also supports these special features. This 
+    means that if you use PHP-CPP for writing functions and classes, you can 
+    achieve things that can not be achieved by writing pure PHP code.
 </p>
 <h2 id="casting-functions">Extra casting functions</h2>
 <p>
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