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obligation | something that must be proven by the trait system ([see more](trait-resolution.html))
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provider | the function that executes a query ([see more](query.html))
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query | perhaps some sub-computation during compilation ([see more](query.html))
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region | another term for "lifetime" often used in the literature and in the borrow checker.
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sess | the compiler session, which stores global data used throughout compilation
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side tables | because the AST and HIR are immutable once created, we often carry extra information about them in the form of hashtables, indexed by the id of a particular node.
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sigil | like a keyword but composed entirely of non-alphanumeric tokens. For example, `&` is a sigil for references.
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soundness | soundness is a technical term in type theory. Roughly, if a type system is sound, then if a program type-checks, it is type-safe; i.e. I can never (in safe rust) force a value into a variable of the wrong type. (see "completeness").
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span | a location in the user's source code, used for error reporting primarily. These are like a file-name/line-number/column tuple on steroids: they carry a start/end point, and also track macro expansions and compiler desugaring. All while being packed into a few bytes (really, it's an index into a table). See the Span datatype for more.
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substs | the substitutions for a given generic type or item (e.g. the `i32`, `u32` in `HashMap<i32, u32>`)
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tcx | the "typing context", main data structure of the compiler ([see more](ty.html))
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'tcx | the lifetime of the currently active inference context ([see more](ty.html))
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token | the smallest unit of parsing. Tokens are produced after lexing ([see more](the-parser.html)).
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trans | the code to translate MIR into LLVM IR.
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trait reference | a trait and values for its type parameters ([see more](ty.html)).
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ty | the internal representation of a type ([see more](ty.html)).
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