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Alexis Beingessner 9 years ago committed by Manish Goregaokar
parent fd601550db
commit 899c8a754a

@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ interactions with other features.)
Some important variances:
* `&` is variant (as is `*const` by metaphor)
* `&mut` is invariant (as is `*mut` by metaphor)
* `&mut` is invariant
* `Fn(T) -> U` is invariant with respect to `T`, but variant with respect to `U`
* `Box`, `Vec`, and all other collections are variant
* `UnsafeCell`, `Cell`, `RefCell`, `Mutex` and all "interior mutability"
types are invariant
types are invariant (as is `*mut` by metaphor)
To understand why these variances are correct and desirable, we will consider several
examples. We have already covered why `&` should be variant when introducing subtyping:
@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ in its place. Therefore functions *are* variant over their return type.
`*const` has the exact same semantics as `&`, so variance follows. `*mut` on the
other hand can dereference to an &mut whether shared or not, so it is marked
as invariant in analogy to cells.
as invariant just like cells.
This is all well and good for the types the standard library provides, but
how is variance determined for type that *you* define? A struct, informally

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