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		gpm 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Algebra of Loans in Rust If we start creating more `&... T` ptr types I wonder if a future edition changes `*const T` to `&raw T` for consistency...

kibwen 21 days ago | [–]

I'm hoping that languages move away from the sigil-ified legacy of C treating pointers as special syntax and just start calling these `Ref<T>`, `PtrConst<T>`, etc.

steveklabnik 21 days ago | [–]

Ehhh it’s already consistent: ones with & borrow, ones without do not.

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