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diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/references-and-borrowing.md b/src/doc/trpl/references-and-borrowing.md index 944417d1096..d8758e0c695 100644 --- a/src/doc/trpl/references-and-borrowing.md +++ b/src/doc/trpl/references-and-borrowing.md @@ -171,9 +171,9 @@ to the definition of a data race: > operations are not synchronized. With references, you may have as many as you’d like, since none of them are -writing. If you are writing, you need two or more pointers to the same memory, -and you can only have one `&mut` at a time. This is how Rust prevents data -races at compile time: we’ll get errors if we break the rules. +writing. However, as we can only have one `&mut` at a time, it is impossible to +have a data race. This is how Rust prevents data races at compile time: we’ll +get errors if we break the rules. With this in mind, let’s consider our example again. @@ -378,3 +378,4 @@ statement 1 at 3:14 In the above example, `y` is declared before `x`, meaning that `y` lives longer than `x`, which is not allowed. + |