From 9f5a6029a3aac4e03ef4cd55459f1537cdbed6fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: olsonpm <olsonpm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 23:54:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] clarify wording (#1931)

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 README.md | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8ec101f6..3edb417f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -444,8 +444,9 @@ to set `true`; it's effectively a shortcut for `foo=true`).
   being compressed into `1/0`, which may cause performance issues on Chrome.
 
 - `side_effects` -- default `false`. Pass `true` to potentially drop functions
-marked as "pure".  (A function is marked as "pure" via the comment annotation
-`/* @__PURE__ */` or `/* #__PURE__ */`)
+marked as "pure".  A function call is marked as "pure" if a comment annotation
+`/*@__PURE__*/` or `/*#__PURE__*/` immediately precedes the call. For example:
+`/*@__PURE__*/foo()`;
 
 
 ### The `unsafe` option