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Subject: Re: "Safe C++ is A new Proposal to Make C++ Memory-Safe"
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

>> [suggested explanation of borrow checking]
>
> Do you think that your explanation is sufficient for Lynn McGuire?
> Consider that he probably doesn't know what Rust people have in mind
> when they talk about ownership.  And you can be sure that he doesn't
> know the rusty meaning of 'borrow'.
>
> Even I am not 100% sure that I understand the later, although it
> seem to me that in their dialect 'borrow' means 'make a reference'.

Just a minor note here..  the word latter is spelled with two t's.

(fwiw I too have been frustrated by the inadequacy of descriptions
of Rust's features and concepts.)