Clarify that slices don't just point to arrays

Fixes #23632

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstd/lib.rs b/src/libstd/lib.rs
index b055796ba54..6833b6a0a21 100644
--- a/src/libstd/lib.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/lib.rs
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@
 //!
 //! ## Vectors, slices and strings
 //!
-//! The common container type, `Vec`, a growable vector backed by an
-//! array, lives in the [`vec`](vec/index.html) module. References to
-//! arrays, `&[T]`, more commonly called "slices", are built-in types
-//! for which the [`slice`](slice/index.html) module defines many
-//! methods.
+//! The common container type, `Vec`, a growable vector backed by an array,
+//! lives in the [`vec`](vec/index.html) module. Contiguous, unsized regions
+//! of memory, `[T]`, commonly called "slices", and their borrowed versions,
+//! `&[T]`, commonly called "borrowed slices", are built-in types for which the
+//! for which the [`slice`](slice/index.html) module defines many methods.
 //!
 //! `&str`, a UTF-8 string, is a built-in type, and the standard library
 //! defines methods for it on a variety of traits in the