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Except is not the same thing? You can copy a reference, you can't copy a box (without having the T be copy as well). A box is a pointer AND the storage at the

Except is not the same thing? You can copy a reference, you can't copy a box (without having the T be copy as well). A box is a pointer AND the storage at the same time. To move it means to move the storage as well, unlike a regular reference.

remram 2y ago
> A box is a pointer AND the storage at the same time. That's just the way you decide to see it. Most people don't, in fact the actual documentation is quite different: >> A pointer type that uniquely owns a heap allocation of type T. This explicitly describes it as a pointer, pointing to a single allocation. https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/boxed/struct.Box.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/boxed/struct.Box.html
- orf 2y ago
  “A pointer type that owns a heap allocation” is a more broad definition to me than specifically “a pointer pointing to a single allocation”
  - remram 2y ago
    You don't think "own" is more specific than "point"? How could it own it without pointing to it?
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