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| author | Patrick Walton <pcwalton@mimiga.net> | 2014-07-07 16:35:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Patrick Walton <pcwalton@mimiga.net> | 2014-07-17 14:05:36 -0700 |
| commit | de70d76373e05fcf0f421cedb185b08de10a714c (patch) | |
| tree | ccfdaa415ce2bb947f40746a3b06a8980ab6cd16 /src/doc/guide-pointers.md | |
| parent | ca24abd4d2d02dd96ef323074c9a21d44b3fd202 (diff) | |
| download | rust-de70d76373e05fcf0f421cedb185b08de10a714c.tar.gz rust-de70d76373e05fcf0f421cedb185b08de10a714c.zip | |
librustc: Remove cross-borrowing of `Box<T>` to `&T` from the language,
except where trait objects are involved.
Part of issue #15349, though I'm leaving it open for trait objects.
Cross borrowing for trait objects remains because it is needed until we
have DST.
This will break code like:
fn foo(x: &int) { ... }
let a = box 3i;
foo(a);
Change this code to:
fn foo(x: &int) { ... }
let a = box 3i;
foo(&*a);
[breaking-change]
Diffstat (limited to 'src/doc/guide-pointers.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/doc/guide-pointers.md | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/doc/guide-pointers.md b/src/doc/guide-pointers.md index 08652822097..17a1114be55 100644 --- a/src/doc/guide-pointers.md +++ b/src/doc/guide-pointers.md @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ fn main() { let origin = &Point { x: 0.0, y: 0.0 }; let p1 = box Point { x: 5.0, y: 3.0 }; - println!("{}", compute_distance(origin, p1)); + println!("{}", compute_distance(origin, &*p1)); } ~~~ |
