@@ -502,10 +502,10 @@ incremented so that the correct counter can be decremented.
502502
503503### Cancellation
504504
505- Once an async call has started, blocked and been added to the caller's table of
506- waitables, the caller may decide that it no longer needs the results or effects
507- of the subtask. In this case, the caller may ** cancel** the subtask by calling
508- the [ ` subtask.cancel ` ] built-in.
505+ Once an async call has started, blocked and been added to the caller's table,
506+ the caller may decide that it no longer needs the results or effects of the
507+ subtask. In this case, the caller may ** cancel** the subtask by calling the
508+ [ ` subtask.cancel ` ] built-in.
509509
510510Once cancellation is requested, since the subtask may have already racily
511511returned a value, the caller may still receive a return value. However, the
@@ -593,8 +593,8 @@ possibilities indicated by the `(result i32)` value:
593593* If the returned ` i32 ` is ` 0 ` , then the call completed synchronously without
594594 blocking and so ` $in ` has been read and ` $out ` has been written.
595595* Otherwise, the high 28 bits of the ` i32 ` are the index of a new ` Subtask `
596- in the current component instance's ` waitables ` table. The low 4 bits
597- indicate how far the callee made it before blocking:
596+ in the current component instance's table. The low 4 bits indicate how far
597+ the callee made it before blocking:
598598 * If ` 1 ` , the callee didn't even start (due to backpressure), and thus
599599 neither ` $in ` nor ` $out ` have been accessed yet.
600600 * If ` 2 ` , the callee started by reading ` $in ` , but blocked before writing
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ func(s1: stream<future<string>>, s2: list<stream<string>>) -> result<stream<stri
624624```
625625In * both* the sync and async ABIs, a ` future ` or ` stream ` in the WIT-level type
626626translates to a single ` i32 ` in the ABI. This ` i32 ` is an index into the
627- component instance's ` waitables ` table. For example, for the WIT function type:
627+ current component instance's table. For example, for the WIT function type:
628628``` wit
629629func(f: future<string>) -> future<u32>
630630```
@@ -637,8 +637,8 @@ and the asynchronous ABI has the signature:
637637(func (param $in i32) (param $out i32) (result i32))
638638```
639639where, according to the above rules, ` $in ` is the index of a future in the
640- ` waitables ` table (not a pointer to one) while ` $out ` is a pointer to a linear
641- memory location that will receive an ` i32 ` index.
640+ current component instance's table (not a pointer to one) while ` $out ` is a
641+ pointer to a linear memory location that will receive an ` i32 ` index.
642642
643643For the runtime semantics of this ` i32 ` index, see ` lift_stream ` ,
644644` lift_future ` , ` lower_stream ` and ` lower_future ` in the [ Canonical ABI
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