Clarify only arrays undergo unsized coercion during dispatch #2139
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A small example to illustrate the difference between array and trait unsized coercions: (playground)
This came up during a discussion about autoref in zulip: #t-lang/custom-refs > Autoref. Thanks to @BennoLossin for the original example.
The rustc dev guide describes this algorithm similarly to the way the reference does today; it mentions unsized coercions in general, but only uses arrays as an example.