X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/web.git/blobdiff_plain/af534f9a2ed86603fb6dd245e61d4bbbc4736bd8..9bf52f555d410cd822a0479a85fe3e73d3203260:/personal/_posts/2018-01-31-sharing-for-a-lifetime.md?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/personal/_posts/2018-01-31-sharing-for-a-lifetime.md b/personal/_posts/2018-01-31-sharing-for-a-lifetime.md index 8dd10da..0b7a454 100644 --- a/personal/_posts/2018-01-31-sharing-for-a-lifetime.md +++ b/personal/_posts/2018-01-31-sharing-for-a-lifetime.md @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ This is not so say that the last word on interior mutability has been spoken; th Either way, this model has certainly helped me not only in the formal work on RustBelt, but also in thinking about the Rust type system itself. For example, I briefly wondered why `Cell` is not covariant. -Indeed, if `U <: T`, then it is perfectly safe to turn a `Cell` into a `Cell` -- that is to say, whenever some sequence of bytes is valid at `Cell`, it is also valid at `Cell`. +Indeed, if `T <: U`, then it is perfectly safe to turn a `Cell` into a `Cell` -- that is to say, whenever some sequence of bytes is valid at `Cell`, it is also valid at `Cell`. (In fact, the owned invariant for `Cell` is *exactly the same* as the one for `T`!) That's precisely what we need for covariance, right? Well, not exactly -- because our types have two invariants, we also have to require that whenever a pointer is a shared `Cell`, it is a shared `Cell`, and that is decisively *not* true!