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authorLaurence Tratt <laurie@tratt.net>2020-05-04 11:01:31 +0100
committerLaurence Tratt <laurie@tratt.net>2020-05-04 11:04:53 +0100
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Document that lifetimes do not currently appear in any::type_name()'s output.
-rw-r--r--src/libcore/any.rs4
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diff --git a/src/libcore/any.rs b/src/libcore/any.rs
index 67698e5409f..2628f890332 100644
--- a/src/libcore/any.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/any.rs
@@ -452,7 +452,9 @@ impl TypeId {
 /// `"std::option::Option<std::string::String>"`.
 ///
 /// The returned string must not be considered to be a unique identifier of a
-/// type as multiple types may map to the same type name. In addition, the
+/// type as multiple types may map to the same type name. Similarly, there is no
+/// guarantee that all parts of a type will appear in the returned string: for
+/// example, lifetime specifiers are currently not included. In addition, the
 /// output may change between versions of the compiler.
 ///
 /// The current implementation uses the same infrastructure as compiler