From 982a1a47830ae0419db620374ffe2f0e018843cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marijn Haverbeke <marijnh@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:24:12 +0200
Subject: Rename alias to reference in docs and error messages

Update docs to reflect new approach to aliases
---
 src/comp/middle/alias.rs | 9 +++++----
 src/comp/middle/mut.rs   | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/comp')

diff --git a/src/comp/middle/alias.rs b/src/comp/middle/alias.rs
index cfffa6e89c6..602554cb0d0 100644
--- a/src/comp/middle/alias.rs
+++ b/src/comp/middle/alias.rs
@@ -266,9 +266,10 @@ fn check_call(cx: ctx, f: @ast::expr, args: [@ast::expr], sc: scope) ->
                 alt r.root_var {
                   some(root) {
                     if node == root && cant_copy(cx, r) {
-                        cx.tcx.sess.span_err(args[arg].span,
-                                             "passing a mutable alias to a \
-                            variable that roots another alias");
+                        cx.tcx.sess.span_err
+                            (args[arg].span,
+                             "passing a mutable reference to a \
+                              variable that roots another reference");
                         break;
                     }
                   }
@@ -415,7 +416,7 @@ fn test_scope(cx: ctx, sc: scope, r: restrict, p: ast::path) {
               }
             };
         cx.tcx.sess.span_err(msg.span,
-                             msg.msg + " will invalidate alias " +
+                             msg.msg + " will invalidate reference " +
                                  ast_util::path_name(p) +
                                  ", which is still used");
     }
diff --git a/src/comp/middle/mut.rs b/src/comp/middle/mut.rs
index b6a86653702..2aa3ddc66c8 100644
--- a/src/comp/middle/mut.rs
+++ b/src/comp/middle/mut.rs
@@ -130,15 +130,15 @@ fn check_crate(tcx: ty::ctxt, crate: @crate) -> mut_map {
     ret cx.mut_map;
 }
 
-tag msg { msg_assign; msg_move_out; msg_mut_alias; }
+tag msg { msg_assign; msg_move_out; msg_mut_ref; }
 
 fn mk_err(cx: @ctx, span: syntax::codemap::span, msg: msg, name: str) {
     cx.tcx.sess.span_err(span,
                          alt msg {
                            msg_assign. { "assigning to " + name }
                            msg_move_out. { "moving out of " + name }
-                           msg_mut_alias. {
-                             "passing " + name + " by mutable alias"
+                           msg_mut_ref. {
+                             "passing " + name + " by mutable reference"
                            }
                          });
 }
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ fn check_call(cx: @ctx, f: @expr, args: [@expr]) {
                        ty::type_autoderef(cx.tcx, ty::expr_ty(cx.tcx, f)));
     let i = 0u;
     for arg_t: ty::arg in arg_ts {
-        if arg_t.mode != by_ref { check_lval(cx, args[i], msg_mut_alias); }
+        if arg_t.mode != by_ref { check_lval(cx, args[i], msg_mut_ref); }
         i += 1u;
     }
 }
-- 
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