Rollup merge of #35102 - steveklabnik:ref_warning, r=aturon

Make it clear that the reference isn't normative

Any time someone edits the reference, it has to be taken very seriously,
since it's the closest thing we have to a specification. This commit
adds language which indicates that this is not a normative document,
which makes it easier to make tweaks without worrying about forever
harming the future of Rust by painting ourselves in a corner.

r? @aturon
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@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ separately by extracting documentation attributes from their source code. Many
of the features that one might expect to be language features are library
features in Rust, so what you're looking for may be there, not here.
Finally, this document is not normative. It may include details that are
specific to `rustc` itself, and should not be taken as a specification for
the Rust language. We intend to produce such a document someday, but this
is what we have for now.
You may also be interested in the [grammar].
[book]: book/index.html