Borrowing

Definitions

1. In Rust's ownership system, temporarily accessing data owned by another variable without taking ownership — via immutable (&T) or mutable (&mut T) references — enforced at compile time to prevent data races and dangling pointers.

   In plain English: Rust's way of letting you look at or change someone else's data temporarily, with strict rules that prevent two parts of the code from conflicting.

   Example: "You can have as many immutable borrows as you want, but only one mutable borrow at a time."

Related Terms

• Cargo
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• Lifetime
• Ownership
• Smart Pointer
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• Match Expression
• Mutable
• Overflow
• Panic
• Rust Borrow Checker
• Rust Crate
• Rust Lifetime
• Rust Unsafe
• Unwrap
• Variable Shadowing
• Warp
• Code Ownership