Update introduction-to-smart-contracts.rst

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diff --git a/docs/introduction-to-smart-contracts.rst b/docs/introduction-to-smart-contracts.rst
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@@ -118,9 +118,11 @@ that is publicly accessible. The ``address`` type is a 160-bit value
 that does not allow any arithmetic operations. It is suitable for
 storing addresses of contracts or keypairs belonging to external
 persons. The keyword ``public`` automatically generates a function that
-allows you to access the current value of the state variable.
-Without this keyword, other contracts have no way to access the variable,
- but raw implementation would look something like this::
+allows you to access the current value of the state variable
+from outside of the contract.
+Without this keyword, other contracts have no way to access the variable.
+The code of the function generated by the compiler is roughly equivalent
+to the following::
 
     function minter() returns (address) { return minter; }