Update ch04-02-references-and-borrowing.md: Explain dangling reference prevention better. #4510
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Explain dangling reference prevention better. The original wording might lead someone learning Rust to think that data will be kept around for as long as a reference exists. Instead, as soon as data is dropped, the reference is barred from being used. Those are two different mechanisms, and this disambiguates which one is in place.
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Explain dangling reference prevention better.
The original wording might lead someone learning Rust to think that data will be kept around for as long as a reference exists. Instead, as soon as data is dropped, the reference is barred from being used. Those are two different mechanisms, and this disambiguates which one is in place.
Original discussion can be found here, on the Rust discord: https://discord.com/channels/273534239310479360/1120124565591425034/1419141200127983727