Rollup of 5 pull requests

src/doc/nomicon/atomics.md

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ fundamentally unsynchronized and compilers are free to aggressively optimize
 them. In particular, data accesses are free to be reordered by the compiler on
 the assumption that the program is single-threaded. The hardware is also free to
 propagate the changes made in data accesses to other threads as lazily and
-inconsistently as it wants. Mostly critically, data accesses are how data races
+inconsistently as it wants. Most critically, data accesses are how data races
 happen. Data accesses are very friendly to the hardware and compiler, but as
 we've seen they offer *awful* semantics to try to write synchronized code with.
 Actually, that's too weak.

src/doc/nomicon/concurrency.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ an abstraction over them in a relatively uncontroversial way. Message passing,
 green threads, and async APIs are all diverse enough that any abstraction over
 them tends to involve trade-offs that we weren't willing to commit to for 1.0.
 
-However the way Rust models concurrency makes it relatively easy design your own
+However the way Rust models concurrency makes it relatively easy to design your own
 concurrency paradigm as a library and have everyone else's code Just Work
 with yours. Just require the right lifetimes and Send and Sync where appropriate
 and you're off to the races. Or rather, off to the... not... having... races.

src/doc/nomicon/destructors.md

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ enum Link {
 will have its inner Box field dropped if and only if an instance stores the
 Next variant.
 
-In general this works really nice because you don't need to worry about
+In general this works really nicely because you don't need to worry about
 adding/removing drops when you refactor your data layout. Still there's
 certainly many valid usecases for needing to do trickier things with
 destructors.

src/doc/nomicon/drop-flags.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 % Drop Flags
 
 The examples in the previous section introduce an interesting problem for Rust.
-We have seen that's possible to conditionally initialize, deinitialize, and
+We have seen that it's possible to conditionally initialize, deinitialize, and
 reinitialize locations of memory totally safely. For Copy types, this isn't
 particularly notable since they're just a random pile of bits. However types
 with destructors are a different story: Rust needs to know whether to call a

src/doc/nomicon/dropck.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 % Drop Check
 
 We have seen how lifetimes provide us some fairly simple rules for ensuring
-that never read dangling references. However up to this point we have only ever
+that we never read dangling references. However up to this point we have only ever
 interacted with the *outlives* relationship in an inclusive manner. That is,
 when we talked about `'a: 'b`, it was ok for `'a` to live *exactly* as long as
 `'b`. At first glance, this seems to be a meaningless distinction. Nothing ever

src/doc/nomicon/send-and-sync.md

@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@
 Not everything obeys inherited mutability, though. Some types allow you to
 multiply alias a location in memory while mutating it. Unless these types use
 synchronization to manage this access, they are absolutely not thread safe. Rust
-captures this with through the `Send` and `Sync` traits.
+captures this through the `Send` and `Sync` traits.
 
 * A type is Send if it is safe to send it to another thread.
 * A type is Sync if it is safe to share between threads (`&T` is Send).
 
 Send and Sync are fundamental to Rust's concurrency story. As such, a
 substantial amount of special tooling exists to make them work right. First and
 foremost, they're [unsafe traits][]. This means that they are unsafe to
-implement, and other unsafe code can  that they are correctly
+implement, and other unsafe code can assume that they are correctly
 implemented. Since they're *marker traits* (they have no associated items like
 methods), correctly implemented simply means that they have the intrinsic
 properties an implementor should have. Incorrectly implementing Send or Sync can

src/doc/nomicon/subtyping.md

@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ fn main() {
 
 The signature of `overwrite` is clearly valid: it takes mutable references to
 two values of the same type, and overwrites one with the other. If `&mut T` was
-variant over T, then `&mut &'a str` would be a subtype of `&mut &'static str`,
-since `&'a str` is a subtype of `&'static str`. Therefore the lifetime of
+variant over T, then `&mut &'static str` would be a subtype of `&mut &'a str`,
+since `&'static str` is a subtype of `&'a str`. Therefore the lifetime of
 `forever_str` would successfully be "shrunk" down to the shorter lifetime of
 `string`, and `overwrite` would be called successfully. `string` would
 subsequently be dropped, and `forever_str` would point to freed memory when we

src/doc/nomicon/unchecked-uninit.md

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ contain any `Drop` types.
 However when working with uninitialized memory you need to be ever-vigilant for
 Rust trying to drop values you make like this before they're fully initialized.
 Every control path through that variable's scope must initialize the value
-before it ends, if has a destructor.
+before it ends, if it has a destructor.
 *[This includes code panicking](unwinding.html)*.
 
 And that's about it for working with uninitialized memory! Basically nothing

src/doc/reference.md

@@ -538,8 +538,9 @@ balanced, but they are otherwise not special.
 In the matcher, `$` _name_ `:` _designator_ matches the nonterminal in the Rust
 syntax named by _designator_. Valid designators are `item`, `block`, `stmt`,
 `pat`, `expr`, `ty` (type), `ident`, `path`, `tt` (either side of the `=>`
-in macro rules). In the transcriber, the designator is already known, and so
-only the name of a matched nonterminal comes after the dollar sign.
+in macro rules), and `meta` (contents of an attribute). In the transcriber, the
+designator is already known, and so only the name of a matched nonterminal comes
+after the dollar sign.
 
 In both the matcher and transcriber, the Kleene star-like operator indicates
 repetition. The Kleene star operator consists of `$` and parentheses, optionally