only &UnsafeCell is special

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@@ -306,7 +306,8 @@ If a function takes an `x: &Cell<i32>`, following the rules above, it will acqui
 Clearly, we do not want to do that -- calling `x.set` *will* actually mutate `*x`, and mutating through a shared reference is exactly the point of using `Cell`!
 
 Lucky enough, the compiler *already* says that interior mutability is only allowed via [`UnsafeCell`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/core/cell/struct.UnsafeCell.html).
-We can use this for our purposes: To adjust validation for interior mutability, we *stop* our recursive descent and do not do anything when reaching an `UnsafeCell`.
+We can use this for our purposes: To adjust validation for interior mutability, we *stop* our recursive descent and do not do anything when reaching an `UnsafeCell` *while `mutbl` indicates we are in immutable mode*.
+(`&mut UnsafeCell` is not affected.)
 In particular, no locks are acquired.
 This justifies calling `set` on a shared reference and having the value changed.
 Of course, it also means we cannot do some of the optimizations we discussed above -- but that's actually exactly what we want!