From: LukeMathWalker <20745048+LukeMathWalker@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 12:53:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Reword 'static issues. Closes #117
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Reword 'static issues. Closes #117
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diff --git a/book/src/07_threads/10_patch.md b/book/src/07_threads/10_patch.md
index db081e9..58257e9 100644
--- a/book/src/07_threads/10_patch.md
+++ b/book/src/07_threads/10_patch.md
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ In the non-threaded version of the system, updates were fairly straightforward:
 
 ## Multithreaded updates
 
-The same strategy won't work in the current multi-threaded version,
-because the mutable reference would have to be sent over a channel. The borrow checker would
-stop us, because `&mut Ticket` doesn't satisfy the `'static` lifetime requirement of `SyncSender::send`.
+The same strategy won't work in the current multithreaded version. The borrow checker would
+stop us: `SyncSender<&mut Ticket>` isn't `'static` because `&mut Ticket` doesn't satisfy the `'static` lifetime, therefore
+they can't be captured by the closure that gets passed to `std::thread::spawn`.
 
 There are a few ways to work around this limitation. We'll explore a few of them in the following exercises.