Skip to content

Clarify C-DEREF #251

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
wants to merge 2 commits into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Clarify C-DEREF #251

Changes from 1 commit
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
b2c1f7b
Clarify C-DEREF
CAD97 Aug 25, 2021
20e0a71
Fix grammar nit
CAD97 Aug 25, 2021
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/predictability.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ specifically to accommodate smart pointers, and so the traits should be used
with those rules in mind.

As a general guideline, consider the "_as-a_" rule. If you implement `Deref`,
wherever `&Target` is acceptable, `&Self` works just as well as a `&Target`.
wherever `&Target` is acceptable, `&Self` works just as well as `&Target`.
Copy link
Author

@CAD97 CAD97 Aug 25, 2021 •
edited
Loading

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

I originally wanted to have a literal "as a" here, but I'd rather completely avoid the a/an question for &Type since this is still grammatically correct without the article, if not more correct (due to the lack of an article on &Self).


### Examples from the standard library

Expand Down