Clarify the swapMVar haddock doc

[ghc-base.git] / Control / Concurrent / MVar.hs

diff --git a/Control/Concurrent/MVar.hs b/Control/Concurrent/MVar.hs
index 7213cf1..fc3a30a 100644 (file)
--- a/Control/Concurrent/MVar.hs
+++ b/Control/Concurrent/MVar.hs
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ readMVar m =
     putMVar m a
     return a
 
--- |Swap the contents of an 'MVar' for a new value.
+-- |Atomically, put a new value into an 'MVar' and return the old value.
 swapMVar :: MVar a -> a -> IO a
 swapMVar mvar new =
   block $ do