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Clarify type declaration language in Associated Types docs #35595

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Expand Up @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ trait Graph {
Simple enough. Associated types use the `type` keyword, and go inside the body
of the trait, with the functions.

These `type` declarations can have all the same thing as functions do. For example,
These type declarations work the same way as those for functions. For example,
if we wanted our `N` type to implement `Display`, so we can print the nodes out,
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I would:

These type declarations work the same way as those for functions.

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I would:

These type declarations work in the same way as they do for functions.

Thoughts, both of you? The original sentence is very bad :(

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I think @tshepang's version is clearer (I assumed the original was just written late at night / in a state of exhaustion)

we could do this:

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