Clarification of borrowck (#354)

rust-lang · May 29, 2022 · 0904427 · 0904427
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 # Splitting Borrows
 
 The mutual exclusion property of mutable references can be very limiting when
-working with a composite structure. The borrow checker understands some basic
-stuff, but will fall over pretty easily. It does understand structs
-sufficiently to know that it's possible to borrow disjoint fields of a struct
-simultaneously. So this works today:
+working with a composite structure. The borrow checker (a.k.a. borrowck)
+understands some basic stuff, but will fall over pretty easily. It does
+understand structs sufficiently to know that it's possible to borrow disjoint
+fields of a struct simultaneously. So this works today:
 
 ```rust
 struct Foo {