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up-to-date glossary and syntax reference.

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/05/14 06:45 PM, Masanori Ogino wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I found that the Reference Manual uses the term "owning pointer", the
>> Pointer Guide and liballoc do "owned pointer" and Tutorial does "owned box".
>>
>> Which term is canonical today?
>>
>> --
>> Masanori Ogino <masanori.og...@gmail.com <mailto:masanori.og...@gmail.com>>
>> http://twitter.com/omasanori
>> http://gplus.to/omasanori
>
> Either owned box (a dynamic allocation owned by a pointer) or owning
> pointer (a pointer owning a dynamic allocation) is accurate. On the
> other hand, the term 'owned pointer' doesn't make sense as even
> references and `Rc<T>` are an owned *pointer*, but the ownership
> relationship doesn't pass through them.
>
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