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# Copyright (C) 2013 The Rust Project Developers
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# This file is distributed under the same license as the Rust package.
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# Automatically generated, 2013.
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"Project-Id-Version: Rust 0.8\n"
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"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-07-22 23:37+0900\n"
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#: doc/rust.md:4 doc/rustpkg.md:4 doc/tutorial.md:4
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msgid "# Introduction"
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msgstr "# イントロダクション"
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msgid "Now we can call `compute_distance()` in various ways:"
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"上記の `compute_distance()` 関数は、様々な方法で呼び出すことができます。"
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:2
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"Borrowed pointers are one of the more flexible and powerful tools available "
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"in Rust. A borrowed pointer can point anywhere: into the managed or exchange "
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"heap, into the stack, and even into the interior of another data structure. "
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"A borrowed pointer is as flexible as a C pointer or C++ reference. However, "
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"unlike C and C++ compilers, the Rust compiler includes special static checks "
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"that ensure that programs use borrowed pointers safely. Another advantage of "
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"borrowed pointers is that they are invisible to the garbage collector, so "
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"working with borrowed pointers helps reduce the overhead of automatic memory "
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"Despite their complete safety, a borrowed pointer's representation at "
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"runtime is the same as that of an ordinary pointer in a C program. They "
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"introduce zero overhead. The compiler does all safety checks at compile time."
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"Although borrowed pointers have rather elaborate theoretical underpinnings "
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"(region pointers), the core concepts will be familiar to anyone who has "
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"worked with C or C++. Therefore, the best way to explain how they are used—"
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"and their limitations—is probably just to work through several examples."
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:26
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msgid "# By example"
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"Borrowed pointers are called *borrowed* because they are only valid for a "
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"limited duration. Borrowed pointers never claim any kind of ownership over "
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"the data that they point to: instead, they are used for cases where you "
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msgid "~~~ struct Point {x: float, y: float} ~~~"
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"We can use this simple definition to allocate points in many different ways. "
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"For example, in this code, each of these three local variables contains a "
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#, no-wrap
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"~~~\n"
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"# struct Point {x: float, y: float}\n"
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"let on_the_stack : Point = Point {x: 3.0, y: 4.0};\n"
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"let managed_box : @Point = @Point {x: 5.0, y: 1.0};\n"
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"let owned_box : ~Point = ~Point {x: 7.0, y: 9.0};\n"
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"Suppose we wanted to write a procedure that computed the distance between "
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"any two points, no matter where they were stored. For example, we might like "
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"to compute the distance between `on_the_stack` and `managed_box`, or between "
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"`managed_box` and `owned_box`. One option is to define a function that takes "
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"two arguments of type `Point`—that is, it takes the points by value. But if "
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"we define it this way, calling the function will cause the points to be "
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"copied. For points, this is probably not so bad, but often copies are "
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"expensive. Worse, if the data type contains mutable fields, copying can "
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"change the semantics of your program in unexpected ways. So we'd like to "
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"define a function that takes the points by pointer. We can use borrowed "
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"~~~\n"
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"# struct Point {x: float, y: float}\n"
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"# fn sqrt(f: float) -> float { 0f }\n"
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"fn compute_distance(p1: &Point, p2: &Point) -> float {\n"
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" let x_d = p1.x - p2.x;\n"
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" let y_d = p1.y - p2.y;\n"
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" sqrt(x_d * x_d + y_d * y_d)\n"
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"# let on_the_stack : Point = Point{x: 3.0, y: 4.0};\n"
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"# let managed_box : @Point = @Point{x: 5.0, y: 1.0};\n"
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"# let owned_box : ~Point = ~Point{x: 7.0, y: 9.0};\n"
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"# fn compute_distance(p1: &Point, p2: &Point) -> float { 0f }\n"
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"compute_distance(&on_the_stack, managed_box);\n"
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"compute_distance(managed_box, owned_box);\n"
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"Here, the `&` operator takes the address of the variable `on_the_stack`; "
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"value) and we have to take its address to get a value. We also call this "
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"_borrowing_ the local variable `on_the_stack`, because we have created an "
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"In contrast, we can pass the boxes `managed_box` and `owned_box` to "
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"`compute_distance` directly. The compiler automatically converts a box like "
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"`@Point` or `~Point` to a borrowed pointer like `&Point`. This is another "
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"form of borrowing: in this case, the caller lends the contents of the "
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"Whenever a caller lends data to a callee, there are some limitations on what "
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"the caller can do with the original. For example, if the contents of a "
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"variable have been lent out, you cannot send that variable to another task. "
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"In addition, the compiler will reject any code that might cause the borrowed "
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"value to be freed or overwrite its component fields with values of different "
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"types (I'll get into what kinds of actions those are shortly). This rule "
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"should make intuitive sense: you must wait for a borrower to return the "
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"value that you lent it (that is, wait for the borrowed pointer to go out of "
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"This declaration means that code can only pass `Point` by value to other "
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"functions. As a consequence, we had to explicitly take the address of "
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"`on_the_stack` to get a borrowed pointer. Sometimes however it is more "
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"~~~ # struct Point {x: float, y: float} let on_the_stack2: &Point = &Point "
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"Applying `&` to an rvalue (non-assignable location) is just a convenient "
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"~~~ # struct Point {x: float, y: float} let tmp = Point {x: 3.0, y: 4.0}; "
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"let on_the_stack2 : &Point = &tmp; ~~~"
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"As in C, the `&` operator is not limited to taking the address of local "
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"~~~ struct Point {x: float, y: float} // as before struct Size {w: float, h: "
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"float} // as before struct Rectangle {origin: Point, size: Size} ~~~"
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"~~~\n"
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"# struct Point {x: float, y: float}\n"
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"# struct Size {w: float, h: float} // as before\n"
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"# struct Rectangle {origin: Point, size: Size}\n"
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"let rect_stack = &Rectangle {origin: Point {x: 1f, y: 2f},\n"
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" size: Size {w: 3f, h: 4f}};\n"
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"let rect_managed = @Rectangle {origin: Point {x: 3f, y: 4f},\n"
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" size: Size {w: 3f, h: 4f}};\n"
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"let rect_owned = ~Rectangle {origin: Point {x: 5f, y: 6f},\n"
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"In each case, we can extract out individual subcomponents with the `&` "
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"~~~ # struct Point {x: float, y: float} // as before # struct Size {w: "
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"float, h: float} // as before # struct Rectangle {origin: Point, size: Size} "
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msgid "# Named lifetimes"
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:565
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msgid ""
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"Let's look at named lifetimes in more detail. Named lifetimes allow for "
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"grouping of parameters by lifetime. For example, consider this function:"
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:579
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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"~~~\n"
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"# struct Point {x: float, y: float}; // as before\n"
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"# struct Size {w: float, h: float}; // as before\n"
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"# enum Shape {\n"
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"# Circle(Point, float), // origin, radius\n"
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"# Rectangle(Point, Size) // upper-left, dimensions\n"
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"# }\n"
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"# fn compute_area(shape: &Shape) -> float { 0f }\n"
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"fn select<'r, T>(shape: &'r Shape, threshold: float,\n"
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" a: &'r T, b: &'r T) -> &'r T {\n"
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" if compute_area(shape) > threshold {a} else {b}\n"
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"}\n"
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"~~~\n"
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:585
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msgid ""
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"This function takes three borrowed pointers and assigns each the same "
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"lifetime `r`. In practice, this means that, in the caller, the lifetime `r` "
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"will be the *intersection of the lifetime of the three region parameters*. "
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"This may be overly conservative, as in this example:"
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msgstr ""
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:607
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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"~~~\n"
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"# struct Point {x: float, y: float}; // as before\n"
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"# struct Size {w: float, h: float}; // as before\n"
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"# enum Shape {\n"
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"# Circle(Point, float), // origin, radius\n"
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"# Rectangle(Point, Size) // upper-left, dimensions\n"
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"# }\n"
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"# fn compute_area(shape: &Shape) -> float { 0f }\n"
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"# fn select<'r, T>(shape: &Shape, threshold: float,\n"
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"# a: &'r T, b: &'r T) -> &'r T {\n"
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"# if compute_area(shape) > threshold {a} else {b}\n"
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"# }\n"
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" // -+ r\n"
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"fn select_based_on_unit_circle<'r, T>( // |-+ B\n"
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" threshold: float, a: &'r T, b: &'r T) -> &'r T { // | |\n"
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" // | |\n"
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" let shape = Circle(Point {x: 0., y: 0.}, 1.); // | |\n"
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" select(&shape, threshold, a, b) // | |\n"
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"} // |-+\n"
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" // -+\n"
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"~~~\n"
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msgstr ""
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:617
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msgid ""
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"In this call to `select()`, the lifetime of the first parameter shape is B, "
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"the function body. Both of the second two parameters `a` and `b` share the "
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"same lifetime, `r`, which is a lifetime parameter of "
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"`select_based_on_unit_circle()`. The caller will infer the intersection of "
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"these two lifetimes as the lifetime of the returned value, and hence the "
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"return value of `select()` will be assigned a lifetime of B. This will in "
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"turn lead to a compilation error, because `select_based_on_unit_circle()` is "
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"supposed to return a value with the lifetime `r`."
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msgstr ""
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:622
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msgid ""
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"To address this, we can modify the definition of `select()` to distinguish "
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"the lifetime of the first parameter from the lifetime of the latter two. "
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"After all, the first parameter is not being returned. Here is how the new "
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"`select()` might look:"
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msgstr ""
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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"~~~\n"
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"# struct Point {x: float, y: float}; // as before\n"
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"# struct Size {w: float, h: float}; // as before\n"
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"# enum Shape {\n"
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"# Circle(Point, float), // origin, radius\n"
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"# Rectangle(Point, Size) // upper-left, dimensions\n"
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"# }\n"
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"# fn compute_area(shape: &Shape) -> float { 0f }\n"
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"fn select<'r, 'tmp, T>(shape: &'tmp Shape, threshold: float,\n"
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" a: &'r T, b: &'r T) -> &'r T {\n"
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" if compute_area(shape) > threshold {a} else {b}\n"
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"}\n"
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"~~~\n"
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msgstr ""
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:641
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msgid ""
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"Here you can see that `shape`'s lifetime is now named `tmp`. The parameters "
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"`a`, `b`, and the return value all have the lifetime `r`. However, since "
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"the lifetime `tmp` is not returned, it would be more concise to just omit "
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"the named lifetime for `shape` altogether:"
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msgstr ""
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:655
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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"~~~\n"
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"# struct Point {x: float, y: float}; // as before\n"
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"# struct Size {w: float, h: float}; // as before\n"
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"# enum Shape {\n"
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"# Circle(Point, float), // origin, radius\n"
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"# Rectangle(Point, Size) // upper-left, dimensions\n"
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"# }\n"
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"# fn compute_area(shape: &Shape) -> float { 0f }\n"
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"fn select<'r, T>(shape: &Shape, threshold: float,\n"
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" a: &'r T, b: &'r T) -> &'r T {\n"
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" if compute_area(shape) > threshold {a} else {b}\n"
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"}\n"
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"~~~\n"
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msgid "This is equivalent to the previous definition."
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:659
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msgid "# Conclusion"
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msgstr ""
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#: doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md:663
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msgid ""
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"So there you have it: a (relatively) brief tour of the borrowed pointer "
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"system. For more details, we refer to the (yet to be written) reference "
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"document on borrowed pointers, which will explain the full notation and give "
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"more examples."
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