// want to use that target type region (`'b`) because --
// for the program to type-check -- it must be the
// smaller of the two.
+ // - One fine point. It may be surprising that we can
+ // use `'b` without relating `'a` and `'b`. The reason
+ // that this is ok is that what we produce is
+ // effectively a `&'b *x` expression (if you could
+ // annotate the region of a borrow), and regionck has
+ // code that adds edges from the region of a borrow
+ // (`'b`, here) into the regions in the borrowed
+ // expression (`*x`, here). (Search for "link".)
// - if in lub mode, things can get fairly complicated. The
// easiest thing is just to make a fresh
// region variable [4], which effectively means we defer