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This patch finalizes stabilization for the `cell` module, settling on the current names `Cell`, `RefCell`, `UnsafeCell`, `Ref` and `RefMut`. While we had considered improving these names, no one was able to produce a truly compelling alternative. There is one substantive change here: the `get` method of `UnsafeSell` is now marked `unsafe`. Merely getting a raw pointer to the contents is not, by itself, an unsafe operation. (Consider that you can always safely turn a reference into a raw pointer, and that raw pointer may then be aliased by subsequent references.)
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This patch finalizes stabilization for the `cell` module, settling on the current names `Cell`, `RefCell`, `UnsafeCell`, `Ref` and `RefMut`. While we had considered improving these names, no one was able to produce a truly compelling alternative. There is one substantive change here: the `get` method of `UnsafeSell` is now marked `unsafe`. Merely getting a raw pointer to the contents is not, by itself, an unsafe operation. (Consider that you can always safely turn a reference into a raw pointer, and that raw pointer may then be aliased by subsequent references.) r? @alexcrichton
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This patch finalizes stabilization for the
cellmodule, settling onthe current names
Cell,RefCell,UnsafeCell,RefandRefMut.While we had considered improving these names, no one was able to
produce a truly compelling alternative.
There is one substantive change here: the
getmethod ofUnsafeSellis now marked
unsafe. Merely getting a raw pointer to the contents isnot, by itself, an unsafe operation. (Consider that you can always
safely turn a reference into a raw pointer, and that raw pointer may
then be aliased by subsequent references.)
r? @alexcrichton