clarify subtyping

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Alexis Beingessner 9 years ago committed by Manish Goregaokar
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% Subtyping and Variance
Although Rust doesn't have any notion of inheritance, it *does* include
subtyping. In Rust, subtyping derives entirely from *lifetimes*. Since lifetimes
are scopes, we can partially order them based on the *contains* (outlives)
relationship. We can even express this as a generic bound.
Although Rust doesn't have any notion of structural inheritance, it *does*
include subtyping. In Rust, subtyping derives entirely from *lifetimes*. Since
lifetimes are scopes, we can partially order them based on the *contains*
(outlives) relationship. We can even express this as a generic bound.
Subtyping on lifetimes in terms of that relationship: if `'a: 'b` ("a contains
b" or "a outlives b"), then `'a` is a subtype of `'b`. This is a large source of

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