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Added a few words to indicate where the vector object is created.
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sandeep-datta committed Feb 11, 2016
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When `v` comes into scope, a new [vector] is created, and it allocates space on
[the heap][heap] for each of its elements. When `v` goes out of scope at the
end of `foo()`, Rust will clean up everything related to the vector, even the
heap-allocated memory. This happens deterministically, at the end of the scope.
When `v` comes into scope, a new [vector] is created on [the stack][stack],
and it allocates space on [the heap][heap] for its elements. When `v` goes out
of scope at the end of `foo()`, Rust will clean up everything related to the
vector, even the heap-allocated memory. This happens deterministically, at the
end of the scope.

We'll cover [vectors] in detail later in this chapter; we only use them
here as an example of a type that allocates space on the heap at runtime. They
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[arrays]: primitive-types.html#arrays
[vectors]: vectors.html
[heap]: the-stack-and-the-heap.html
[stack]: the-stack-and-the-heap.html#the-stack
[bindings]: variable-bindings.html
[generics]: generics.html

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