It's only used for unsafe things. When I saw it I thought it may be implemented by other types. It doesn't help that `core::ptr` deals with both unsafe and borrowed pointers.
Activity
graydon commentedon May 23, 2013
did we not decide to use "raw" for these things?
graydon commentedon May 23, 2013
accepted for backwards-compatible milestone
thestinger commentedon May 23, 2013
@graydon: #6608 is related, we haven't really settled on unsafe vs. raw across the codebase
auto merge of #6913 : thestinger/rust/ptr, r=graydon
thestinger commentedon Jun 4, 2013
Fixed by #6913.