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| author | Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com> | 2016-05-21 09:08:10 +0530 |
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| committer | Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com> | 2016-05-21 09:08:10 +0530 |
| commit | f262bb899ce4d028d75f9f272db2313dea3cf244 (patch) | |
| tree | f5b856d860ab7ccf6c5db188b76066bfe78674f6 /src | |
| parent | c57bb106d85d52b5c24634bcc68a4637c94c2472 (diff) | |
| parent | 71af58accf8f773a7d410cf947940487f65ae70f (diff) | |
| download | rust-f262bb899ce4d028d75f9f272db2313dea3cf244.tar.gz rust-f262bb899ce4d028d75f9f272db2313dea3cf244.zip | |
Rollup merge of #33747 - postmodern:patch-2, r=Manishearth
Clarify the English translation of `?Sized` * It wasn't clear whether `?Sized` meant "not `Sized`" or "`Sized` or not `Sized`". According to #rust IRC, it does indeed mean "`Sized` or not `Sized`". * Use the same language as [Trait std::marker::Sized](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/marker/trait.Sized.html) about how `Sized` is implicitly bound. * Refer to the syntax as `?Sized`, since it's currently the only allowed trait that can follow `?`.
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/doc/book/unsized-types.md | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/doc/book/unsized-types.md b/src/doc/book/unsized-types.md index 73b90355e4f..a23470d39fa 100644 --- a/src/doc/book/unsized-types.md +++ b/src/doc/book/unsized-types.md @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ pointers, can use this `impl`. # ?Sized If you want to write a function that accepts a dynamically sized type, you -can use the special bound, `?Sized`: +can use the special bound syntax, `?Sized`: ```rust struct Foo<T: ?Sized> { @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ struct Foo<T: ?Sized> { } ``` -This `?`, read as “T may be `Sized`”, means that this bound is special: it -lets us match more kinds, not less. It’s almost like every `T` implicitly has -`T: Sized`, and the `?` undoes this default. +This `?Sized`, read as “T may or may not be `Sized`”, which allows us to match +both sized and unsized types. All generic type parameters implicitly +have the `Sized` bound, so the `?Sized` can be used to opt-out of the implicit +bound. |
