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But before I delve into my latest proposal, I want to briefly discuss a key difference between my previous model and this one:
-"Types as Contracts" was a fully "validity"-based model, while "Stacked Borrows" is (to some extend) "access"-based.
+"Types as Contracts" was a fully "validity"-based model, while "Stacked Borrows" is (to some extent) "access"-based.
## 1 Validity-based vs. Access-based
If we compared them as raw pointers, they would turn out equal.
And yet, it makes a huge difference if we use `x` or `y`!
-If you read my previous post on [why pointers are complicated](2018-07-24-pointers-and-bytes), this should not come as too much of a surprise.
+If you read my previous post on [why pointers are complicated]({% post_url 2018-07-24-pointers-and-bytes %}), this should not come as too much of a surprise.
There is more to a pointer, or a reference (I am using these terms mostly interchangeably), than the address in memory that it points to.
For the purpose of this model, we assume that a value of reference type consists of two parts: An address in memory, and a tag used to store the time when the reference was created.
Consider the following code:
{% highlight rust %}
-fn demo5(x: &mut i32, y: usize) -> i32 {
+fn demo5(x: &mut i32, y: usize) {
*x = 42;
foo(y);
}