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@gthb gthb commented Aug 1, 2021

Being new to Rust I wasn't familiar with this acronym and found it hard to guess (the context of syntax trees biased me to reading it as a D-something Syntax Tree and trying to guess what the D was), hard to google (in retrospect googling "rust dst" does the job, but I thought it was an abstract structure thing, not Rust-specific), and hard to Github-search, because dst is commonly short for “destination” in code.

Alternatively <abbr title="dynamically sized type">DST</abbr> would be about as helpful.

Being new to Rust I wasn't familiar with this acronym and found it hard to guess (the context of syntax trees biased me to reading it as a D-something Syntax Tree and trying to guess what the D was), hard to google (in retrospect googling "rust dst" does the job, but I thought it was an abstract structure thing, not Rust-specific), and hard to Github-search, because `dst` is commonly short for “destination” in code.

Alternatively `<abbr title="dynamically sized type">DST</abbr>` would be about as helpful.
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lnicola commented Aug 1, 2021

Thanks.

bors r+

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@bors bors bot merged commit df0936b into rust-lang:master Aug 1, 2021
@lnicola lnicola changed the title Link “DST” to its definition minor: Link “DST” to its definition Aug 1, 2021
@gthb gthb deleted the patch-2 branch August 3, 2021 15:59
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