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so that you can reference mutable shared state, but only one task/thread/function may access it at any one time and assigning or copying the pointer causes owne

so that you can reference mutable shared state, but only one task/thread/function may access it at any one time and assigning or copying the pointer causes ownership to be transferred That sounds kind of like Rust's "unique pointers".

dkersten 15y ago
Yes, I think this is exactly Rust's unique pointers. Rust has a lot of interesting language features and is one of the up-and-coming languages I'm watching with interest.