X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/rust-101.git/blobdiff_plain/b60c82e9d3b03aa36484c1ff68f34f4e78862d46..b89eed2cb450e67dd00102d1018adbb9a0cb1cae:/src/part05.rs

diff --git a/src/part05.rs b/src/part05.rs
index b593360..a0eb1d1 100644
--- a/src/part05.rs
+++ b/src/part05.rs
@@ -48,8 +48,10 @@ impl BigInt {
     }
 
     // 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.
     // 
@@ -60,8 +62,8 @@ impl BigInt {
 }
 
 // ## 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.
@@ -97,7 +99,7 @@ impl<T: Clone> Clone for SomethingOrNothing<T> {
         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.
@@ -145,4 +147,4 @@ fn work_on_variant(mut var: Variant, text: String) {
 //@ 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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