[bschwindHN]

I always liked to think of it in terms of car ownership. You can immutably borrow my car (&car) but if you modify it, you're a jerk (you obviously can't modify it in Rust). Or if you're a mechanic you can mutably borrow (&mut car) it and upgrade it or something. Orr, if I sell my car to you, you've taken ownership of it.

fn borrow_car(car: &Car); fn modify_car(car: &mut Car); fn sell_car(car: Car);

Obviously there'd be other parameters in the functions, but yeah that's the gist of it.