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| author | Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com> | 2015-05-17 11:55:39 +0530 |
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| committer | Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com> | 2015-05-17 11:55:39 +0530 |
| commit | 1fd0a8455b19cac75a9cb910a0315493f13d2ee9 (patch) | |
| tree | 5b9fa66001fe4032e4cbada59a381470e4255904 | |
| parent | b3706de65abda0f317fe6b2157e6ff4ee6346849 (diff) | |
| parent | ba02739ad3519874cb19e741b3df59cef2917b9e (diff) | |
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Rollup merge of #25506 - Wilfred:master, r=alexcrichton
Newcomers to Rust need to learn the distinctinion between `&str` and `String`, so additonally having `string` in an example risks confusion.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/doc/trpl/strings.md | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/strings.md b/src/doc/trpl/strings.md index 61a6ec3eb3f..ece2c390be3 100644 --- a/src/doc/trpl/strings.md +++ b/src/doc/trpl/strings.md @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ Rust has two main types of strings: `&str` and `String`. Let’s talk about `&'static str`: ```rust -let string = "Hello there."; // string: &'static str +let greeting = "Hello there."; // greeting: &'static str ``` This string is statically allocated, meaning that it’s saved inside our -compiled program, and exists for the entire duration it runs. The `string` +compiled program, and exists for the entire duration it runs. The `greeting` binding is a reference to this statically allocated string. String slices have a fixed size, and cannot be mutated. |