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| author | Camelid <37223377+camelid@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-08-22 18:59:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> | 2020-08-26 13:13:14 +0200 |
| commit | 88f89f2c945c44da1c07f29286d93347fc6a9000 (patch) | |
| tree | c5c90689161c937df3aa6616895d0856d2704f15 /src/doc/rustc-dev-guide | |
| parent | c81541279aba017a6f3607eb07b24ba2197cea63 (diff) | |
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Co-authored-by: Joshua Nelson <joshua@yottadb.com>
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diff --git a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/mir/construction.md b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/mir/construction.md index 2d5eef6d06d..50545f7763e 100644 --- a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/mir/construction.md +++ b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/mir/construction.md @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ without explicit syntax) like coercions, autoderef, autoref and overloaded metho calls have become explicit casts, deref operations, reference expressions or concrete function calls. -The [THIR] has datatypes that mirror the [HIR] datatypes, but the [THIR] is a shallow -wrapper around [HIR]. For example, instead of `-x` being a `thir::ExprKind::Neg(thir::Expr)` +The [THIR] is a shallow wrapper around [HIR], with datatypes that mirror the [HIR] datatypes. +For example, instead of `-x` being a `thir::ExprKind::Neg(thir::Expr)` (a deep copy), it is a `thir::ExprKind::Neg(hir::Expr)` (a shallow copy). This shallowness enables the [THIR] to represent all datatypes that [HIR] has, but without having to create an in-memory copy of the entire [HIR]. |