Auto merge of #42419 - ucarion:ucarion-explain-rc-arc-abbrev, r=frewsxcv
Explicate what "Rc" and "Arc" stand for. A person on the weekly "Easy Questions" Reddit thread [was mystified by what `Arc`/`Rc` means](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6dyud9/hey_rustaceans_got_an_easy_question_ask_here/did87ds/). Though this is explained in various places, it's not mentioned in the documentation directly. This PR adds an explanation of the `Rc`/`Arc` acronyms to their respective documentations. There are two things I'm not sure of: * Does "Rc" mean "Reference Count**er**" or "Reference Count**ed**"? ~~I went with the former.~~ *Edit:* I've changed this to use the latter alternative. * Should this information be spelled out elsewhere, such as in the docs for the `rc` module?
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/// necessarily) at _exactly_ `MAX_REFCOUNT + 1` references.
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const MAX_REFCOUNT: usize = (isize::MAX) as usize;
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/// A thread-safe reference-counting pointer.
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/// A thread-safe reference-counting pointer. 'Arc' stands for 'Atomically
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/// Reference Counted'.
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///
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/// The type `Arc<T>` provides shared ownership of a value of type `T`,
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/// allocated in the heap. Invoking [`clone`][clone] on `Arc` produces
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#![allow(deprecated)]
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//! Single-threaded reference-counting pointers.
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//! Single-threaded reference-counting pointers. 'Rc' stands for 'Reference
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//! Counted'.
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//!
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//! The type [`Rc<T>`][`Rc`] provides shared ownership of a value of type `T`,
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//! allocated in the heap. Invoking [`clone`][clone] on [`Rc`] produces a new
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value: T,
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}
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/// A single-threaded reference-counting pointer.
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/// A single-threaded reference-counting pointer. 'Rc' stands for 'Reference
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/// Counted'.
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///
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/// See the [module-level documentation](./index.html) for more details.
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///
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