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| author | Erick Tryzelaar <erick.tryzelaar@gmail.com> | 2013-05-23 17:58:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Erick Tryzelaar <erick.tryzelaar@gmail.com> | 2013-05-23 17:58:30 -0700 |
| commit | cc4fabcb4361d0daada096f5e6ac19eb6ed21d33 (patch) | |
| tree | aba02724b023cd26fb2ce61348cef9910ae8b8b3 | |
| parent | 21c3cf02f056e66d492a5a324e047ae1fec0c7d8 (diff) | |
| download | rust-cc4fabcb4361d0daada096f5e6ac19eb6ed21d33.tar.gz rust-cc4fabcb4361d0daada096f5e6ac19eb6ed21d33.zip | |
Fix some std/extra language in the tutorial
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tutorial.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tutorial.md b/doc/tutorial.md index ad9431ef60c..91a41cb9b85 100644 --- a/doc/tutorial.md +++ b/doc/tutorial.md @@ -1480,7 +1480,6 @@ This code creates a closure that adds a given string to its argument, returns it from a function, and then calls it: ~~~~ -# extern mod std; fn mk_appender(suffix: ~str) -> @fn(~str) -> ~str { // The compiler knows that we intend this closure to be of type @fn return |s| s + suffix; @@ -2292,7 +2291,7 @@ let nonsense = mycircle.radius() * mycircle.area(); ## Deriving implementations for traits -A small number of traits in `std` and `std` can have implementations +A small number of traits in `std` and `extra` can have implementations that can be automatically derived. These instances are specified by placing the `deriving` attribute on a data type declaration. For example, the following will mean that `Circle` has an implementation @@ -2541,9 +2540,9 @@ as well as an inscrutable string of alphanumerics. These are both part of Rust's library versioning scheme. The alphanumerics are a hash representing the crate metadata. -## The std library +## The standard library -The Rust std library provides runtime features required by the language, +The Rust standard library provides runtime features required by the language, including the task scheduler and memory allocators, as well as library support for Rust built-in types, platform abstractions, and other commonly used features. @@ -2559,7 +2558,7 @@ I/O abstractions ([`io`]), [containers] like [`hashmap`], common traits ([`kinds`], [`ops`], [`cmp`], [`num`], [`to_str`], [`clone`]), and complete bindings to the C standard library ([`libc`]). -### Core injection and the Rust prelude +### Standard Library injection and the Rust prelude `std` is imported at the topmost level of every crate by default, as if the first line of each crate was @@ -2571,7 +2570,7 @@ with the `std::` path prefix, as in `use std::vec`, `use std::task::spawn`, etc. Additionally, `std` contains a `prelude` module that reexports many of the -most common std modules, types and traits. The contents of the prelude are +most common standard modules, types and traits. The contents of the prelude are imported into every *module* by default. Implicitly, all modules behave as if they contained the following prologue: |
