}
// We can convert any vector of digits into a number, by removing trailing zeros. The `mut`
- // declaration for `v` here is just like the one in `let mut ...`, it says that we will locally
- // change the vector `v`.
+ // declaration for `v` here is just like the one in `let mut ...`: We completely own `v`, but Rust
+ // still asks us to make our intention of modifying it explicit. This `mut` is *not* part of the
+ // type of `from_vec` - the caller has to give up ownership of `v` anyway, so they don't care anymore
+ // what you do to it.
//
// **Exercise 05.1**: Implement this function.
//
}
// ## Cloning
-//@ If you have a close look at the type of `BigInt::from_vec`, you will notice that it
-//@ consumes the vector `v`. The caller hence loses access to its vector. There is however something
+//@ If you take a close look at the type of `BigInt::from_vec`, you will notice that it
+//@ consumes the vector `v`. The caller hence loses access to its vector. However, there is something
//@ we can do if we don't want that to happen: We can explicitly `clone` the vector,
//@ which means that a full (or *deep*) copy will be performed. Technically,
//@ `clone` takes a borrowed vector, and returns a fully owned one.
match *self { /*@*/
Nothing => Nothing, /*@*/
//@ In the second arm of the match, we need to talk about the value `v`
- //@ that's stored in `self`. However, if we would write the pattern as
+ //@ that's stored in `self`. However, if we were to write the pattern as
//@ `Something(v)`, that would indicate that we *own* `v` in the code
//@ after the arrow. That can't work though, we have to leave `v` owned by
//@ whoever called us - after all, we don't even own `self`, we just borrowed it.
//@ I hope this example clarifies why Rust has to rule out mutation in the presence of aliasing *in general*,
//@ not just for the specific case of a buffer being reallocated, and old pointers becoming hence invalid.
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