tutorial: clearer explanation of freezing.

- "Lending an immutable pointer" might be confusing. It was not discussed why borrowed pointers are immutable in the first place.
- Make it clear that the borrowed pointers are immutable even if the variable was declared with `mut`.
- Make it clear that we cannot even assign anything to the variable while its value is being borrowed.

tutorial: change "--" to an em-dash.

tutorial: change instances of "--" to em-dash.
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Jag Talon 2014-02-25 01:17:31 -05:00
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@ -1468,14 +1468,14 @@ For a more in-depth explanation of references and lifetimes, read the
## Freezing
Lending an immutable pointer to an object freezes it and prevents mutation.
Lending an &-pointer to an object freezes it and prevents mutation—even if the object was declared as `mut`.
`Freeze` objects have freezing enforced statically at compile-time. An example
of a non-`Freeze` type is [`RefCell<T>`][refcell].
~~~~
let mut x = 5;
{
let y = &x; // `x` is now frozen, it cannot be modified
let y = &x; // `x` is now frozen. It cannot be modified or re-assigned.
}
// `x` is now unfrozen again
# x = 3;
@ -2021,8 +2021,8 @@ C++ templates.
## Traits
Within a generic function -- that is, a function parameterized by a
type parameter, say, `T` -- the operations we can do on arguments of
Within a generic functionthat is, a function parameterized by a
type parameter, say, `T`the operations we can do on arguments of
type `T` are quite limited. After all, since we don't know what type
`T` will be instantiated with, we can't safely modify or query values
of type `T`. This is where _traits_ come into play. Traits are Rust's