borrowed pointers vs ref

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/13/2014 11:21 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I'm not certain I understand the concept correctly, but from Dicebot's code
> example, it is transitive.

I know Dicebot's example assumes a transitivity property, but I question that 
assumption.

In my cursory reading of Rust documentation, it wasn't clear to me if it was 
transitive or not.