Fix some typos and grammar in the docs.
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@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ features of Rust, relative to other languages.
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The initialization state of every slot is statically computed as part of the
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typestate system (see below), and requires that all slots are initialized
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before use. There is no @code{null} value; uninitialized slots are
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uninitialized, and can only be written to, not read.
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uninitialized and can only be written to, not read.
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The common use for @code{null} in other languages -- as a sentinel value -- is
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subsumed into the more general facility of disjoint union types. A program
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@ -197,10 +197,10 @@ must explicitly model its use of such types.
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Like many @emph{actor} languages, Rust provides an isolation (and concurrency)
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model based on lightweight tasks scheduled by the language runtime. These
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tasks are very inexpensive and statically unable to manipulate one another's
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local memory. Breaking the rule of task isolation is only possible by calling
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local memory. Breaking the rule of task isolation is possible only by calling
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external (C/C++) code.
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Inter-task communication is typed, asynchronous and simplex, based on passing
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Inter-task communication is typed, asynchronous, and simplex, based on passing
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messages over channels to ports.
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@sp 1
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@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ module bar @{
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@end example
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In future versions of Rust, user-provided extensions to the compiler will be able
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to use interpret attributes. When this facility is provided, a distinction will be
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to interpret attributes. When this facility is provided, a distinction will be
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made between language-reserved and user-available attributes.
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At present, only the Rust compiler interprets attributes, so all attribute
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@ -1328,13 +1328,13 @@ Local slots are always implicitly mutable.
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Local slots are not initialized when allocated; the entire frame worth of
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local slots are allocated at once, on frame-entry, in an uninitialized
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state. Subsequent statements within a function may or may not initialize the
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local slots. Local slots can only be used after they have been initialized;
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local slots. Local slots can be used only after they have been initialized;
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this condition is guaranteed by the typestate system.
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References are created for function arguments. If the compiler can not prove
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that the referred-to value will outlive the reference, it will try to set
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aside a copy of that value to refer to. If this is not sematically safe (for
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example, if the referred-to value contains mutable fields), it reject the
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example, if the referred-to value contains mutable fields), it will reject the
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program. If the compiler deems copying the value expensive, it will warn.
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A function can be declared to take an argument by mutable reference. This
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@ -1996,7 +1996,7 @@ The output type of an iterator is the type of value that the function will
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@code{put}, before it eventually evaluates a @code{ret} or @code{be} expression
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of type @code{()} and completes its execution.
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An iterator can only be called in the loop header of a matching @code{for
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An iterator can be called only in the loop header of a matching @code{for
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each} loop or as the argument in a @code{put each} expression.
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@xref{Ref.Expr.Foreach}.
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@ -2108,10 +2108,10 @@ The constructors of a @code{tag} type may be recursive: that is, each constructo
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may take an argument that refers, directly or indirectly, to the tag type the constructor
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is a member of. Such recursion has restrictions:
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@itemize
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@item Recursive types can only be introduced through @code{tag} constructors.
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@item Recursive types can be introduced only through @code{tag} constructors.
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@item A recursive @code{tag} item must have at least one non-recursive
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constructor (in order to give the recursion a basis case).
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@item The recursively argument of recursive tag constructors must be @emph{box}
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@item The recursive argument of recursive tag constructors must be @emph{box}
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values (in order to bound the in-memory size of the constructor).
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@item Recursive type definitions can cross module boundaries, but not module
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@emph{visibility} boundaries, nor crate boundaries (in order to simplify the
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@ -2360,7 +2360,7 @@ values similar to the record type-constructor. The differences are as follows:
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@itemize
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@item tuple elements cannot be mutable, unlike record fields
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@item tuple elements are not named, and can only be accessed by pattern-matching
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@item tuple elements are not named and can be accessed only by pattern-matching
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@end itemize
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Tuple types and values are denoted by listing the types or values of
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