From 2f8044418ef6102a94d09f4da9004a01de1dddf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Klabnik Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:00:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Remove innapropriate string mutability section. Fixes #14948 --- src/libcollections/str.rs | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/libcollections/str.rs b/src/libcollections/str.rs index b2be9662110..9ca1011f166 100644 --- a/src/libcollections/str.rs +++ b/src/libcollections/str.rs @@ -44,17 +44,6 @@ the string is valid for the `'static` lifetime, otherwise known as the lifetime of the entire program. As can be inferred from the type, these static strings are not mutable. -# Mutability - -Many languages have immutable strings by default, and Rust has a particular -flavor on this idea. As with the rest of Rust types, strings are immutable by -default. If a string is declared as `mut`, however, it may be mutated. This -works the same way as the rest of Rust's type system in the sense that if -there's a mutable reference to a string, there may only be one mutable reference -to that string. With these guarantees, strings can easily transition between -being mutable/immutable with the same benefits of having mutable strings in -other languages. - # Representation Rust's string type, `str`, is a sequence of unicode scalar values encoded as a