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authorJacob Hughes <jacob.hughes@kcl.ac.uk>2018-02-14 11:30:53 +0000
committerJacob Hughes <jacob.hughes@kcl.ac.uk>2018-02-14 15:50:26 +0000
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Clarified why `Sized` bound not implicit on trait's implicit `Self` type.
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-rw-r--r--src/libcore/marker.rs10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/libcore/marker.rs b/src/libcore/marker.rs
index 3032fb2de33..5b482d467bc 100644
--- a/src/libcore/marker.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/marker.rs
@@ -63,9 +63,13 @@ impl<T: ?Sized> !Send for *mut T { }
 /// struct BarUse(Bar<[i32]>); // OK
 /// ```
 ///
-/// The one exception is the implicit `Self` type of a trait, which does not
-/// get an implicit `Sized` bound. This is because a `Sized` bound prevents
-/// the trait from being used to form a [trait object]:
+/// The one exception is the implicit `Self` type of a trait. A trait does not
+/// have an implicit `Sized` bound as this is incompatible with [trait object]s
+/// where, by definition, one cannot know the size of all possible
+/// implementations of the trait.
+///
+/// Although Rust will let you bind `Sized` to a trait, you won't
+/// be able to use it as a trait object later:
 ///
 /// ```
 /// # #![allow(unused_variables)]