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Box docs don't mention that you can move out of them #53634

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ExpHP opened this issue Aug 23, 2018 · 1 comment
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Box docs don't mention that you can move out of them #53634

ExpHP opened this issue Aug 23, 2018 · 1 comment
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ExpHP commented Aug 23, 2018

I wanted to link somebody to documentation explaining that you can dereference a Box to move the value onto the stack, but... neither the boxed module nor Box mention this or show any examples!

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/boxed/index.html
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/boxed/struct.Box.html
@csmoe csmoe added the A-docs Area: documentation for any part of the project, including the compiler, standard library, and tools label Aug 23, 2018
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Opened a PR for this: #54544

frewsxcv added a commit to frewsxcv/rust that referenced this issue Sep 29, 2018
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Indicate how to move value out of Box in docs.
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Fixes rust-lang#53634.
kennytm added a commit to kennytm/rust that referenced this issue Oct 1, 2018
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Rollup merge of rust-lang#54544 - frewsxcv:frewsxcv-deref, r=Guillaum…
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Indicate how to move value out of Box in docs.

Fixes rust-lang#53634.
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