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authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2013-03-29 14:16:52 -0400
committerDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2013-03-29 14:16:52 -0400
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tutorial: use "owned box" consistently
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 # Borrowed pointers
 
 Rust's borrowed pointers are a general purpose reference type. In contrast with
-owned pointers, where the holder of an owned pointer is the owner of the
-pointed-to memory, borrowed pointers never imply ownership. A pointer can be
-borrowed to any object, and the compiler verifies that it cannot outlive the
-lifetime of the object.
+owned boxes, where the holder of an owned box is the owner of the pointed-to
+memory, borrowed pointers never imply ownership. A pointer can be borrowed to
+any object, and the compiler verifies that it cannot outlive the lifetime of
+the object.
 
 As an example, consider a simple struct type, `Point`: