say immutable instead of read-only

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diff --git a/personal/_drafts/stacked-borrows-implementation.md b/personal/_drafts/stacked-borrows-implementation.md
index ac3624da458cb6f07dcbdef4773b8d483fd8f327..1bc1ef12d0012fd0a09d20eaf6209b2d547947c8 100644 (file)
--- a/personal/_drafts/stacked-borrows-implementation.md
+++ b/personal/_drafts/stacked-borrows-implementation.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ that some things about references always hold true for every valid execution
 (meaning executions where no [undefined behavior]({% post_url
 2017-07-14-undefined-behavior %}) occurred): `&mut` references are unique (we
 can rely on no accesses by other functions happening to the memory they point
-to), and `&` references are read-only (we can rely on no writes happening to the
+to), and `&` references are immutable (we can rely on no writes happening to the
 memory they point to, unless there is an `UnsafeCell`).  Usually we have the
 borrow checker guarding us against such nefarious violations of reference type
 guarantees, but alas, when we are writing unsafe code, the borrow checker cannot
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ you only want to know how to help, jump to [section 6].
 
 ## 1 Enforcing Uniqueness
 
-Let us first ignore the part about `&` references being read-only and focus on
+Let us first ignore the part about `&` references being immutable and focus on
 uniqueness of mutable references.  Namely, we want to define our model in a way
 that calling the following function will trigger undefined behavior:
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ If we just had unique pointers, Rust would be a rather dull language.  Luckily
 enough, there are also two ways to have shared access to a location: through
 shared references (safely), and through raw pointers (unsafely).  Moreover,
 shared references *sometimes* (but not when they point to an `UnsafeCell`)
-assert an additional guarantee: Their destination is read-only.
+assert an additional guarantee: Their destination is immutable.
 
 For example, we want the following code to be allowed -- not least because this
 is actually safe code accepted by the borrow checker, so we better make sure
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ the stack, such that the access through `mut_ref` at the end remains valid.
 This may sound like a weird rule, and it is.  I would surely not have thought of
 this if `RefCell` would not force our hands here.  However, as we shall see in
 [section 5], it also does not to break any of the important properties of the
-model (mutable references being unique and shared references being read-only
+model (mutable references being unique and shared references being immutable
 except for `UnsafeCell`).  Moreover, when pushing an item to the stack (at the
 end of the retag action), we can be sure that the stack is not yet frozen: if it
 were frozen, the reborrow would be redundant.
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ fn demo_mut_advanced_unique(our: &mut u8) -> u8 {
 }
 {% endhighlight %}
 
-### 5.2 Shared References (without `UnsafeCell)` are Read-only
+### 5.2 Shared References (without `UnsafeCell)` are Immutable
 
 The key property of shared references is that: After creating (retagging,
 really) a shared reference, if we then run some unknown code (it can even have