Expand lifetimes section

[vext01]

Hi,

I'd like to expand the lifetimes section of the rustonomicon with the example (and Lukas's answer) to the question in this stack overflow post.

If you'd welcome this change I will do the legwork and raise the PR, but I want to check that such a change is welcomed before investing the time.

(I'm a Rust beginner, and a first time contributor to rust docs).

Thanks

[steveklabnik]

Hi @vext01 !

Yes, I'd love some PRs for the rustinomicon, including this stuff. Just send one in, that'd be great.

I'm going to give this a close since the question is answered 😄

[vext01]

Thanks Steve.

I was going to suggest that my PR could be marked to fix this bug, but as you wish :)

[vext01]

@steveklabnik Do you guys have a formal name for the process of deciding the shortest scope to satisfy references to referents from different scopes (as described in the SO post)? I'm wondering what I should call the new section...

Also, how does one build the nomicon? Is it an mdbook project?

[steveklabnik]

I was going to suggest that my PR could be marked to fix this bug, but as you wish :)

Let's do that!

Do you guys have a formal name for the process of deciding the shortest scope to satisfy references to referents from different scopes (as described in the SO post)?

I am not 100% sure, /cc @nikomatsakis

Also, how does one build the nomicon? Is it an mdbook project?

yes. I really need to add a README....