diff --git a/src/ch10-03-lifetime-syntax.md b/src/ch10-03-lifetime-syntax.md index 5229ab74b3..1a95bc1fa0 100644 --- a/src/ch10-03-lifetime-syntax.md +++ b/src/ch10-03-lifetime-syntax.md @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ One detail we didn’t discuss in the [“References and Borrowing”][references-and-borrowing] section in Chapter 4 is that every reference in Rust has a *lifetime*, which is the scope for which that reference is valid. Most of the time, lifetimes are implicit and inferred, -just like most of the time, types are inferred. We only must annotate types +just like most of the time, types are inferred. We must only annotate types when multiple types are possible. In a similar way, we must annotate lifetimes when the lifetimes of references could be related in a few different ways. Rust requires us to annotate the relationships using generic lifetime parameters to ensure the actual references used at runtime will definitely be valid. -Annotating lifetimes is not even a concept most other programming languages +Annotating lifetimes is not a concept most other programming languages have, so this is going to feel unfamiliar. Although we won’t cover lifetimes in their entirety in this chapter, we’ll discuss common ways you might encounter lifetime syntax so you can get comfortable with the concept.