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tutorial: use "owned box" consistently

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Daniel Micay 2013-03-29 14:16:52 -04:00
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# Borrowed pointers
Rust's borrowed pointers are a general purpose reference type. In contrast with
owned pointers, where the holder of an owned pointer is the owner of the
pointed-to memory, borrowed pointers never imply ownership. A pointer can be
borrowed to any object, and the compiler verifies that it cannot outlive the
lifetime of the object.
owned boxes, where the holder of an owned box is the owner of the pointed-to
memory, borrowed pointers never imply ownership. A pointer can be borrowed to
any object, and the compiler verifies that it cannot outlive the lifetime of
the object.
As an example, consider a simple struct type, `Point`: