I believe that was just addressing the fact that the type `Box<T>` is more annoying than the type `~T`, since the `box expr` replacement for the `~expr` express

I believe that was just addressing the fact that the type `Box<T>` is more annoying than the type `~T`, since the `box expr` replacement for the `~expr` expression is relatively nice (admittedly I wasn't following the discussion in great detail).