Define turbofish in the glossary
It should be called out with a note on path expressions, except that
there's nowhere to attach it to currently.
@@ -234,6 +234,22 @@ It allows a type to make certain promises about its behavior.
Generic functions and generic structs can use traits to constrain, or bound, the types they accept.
+### Turbofish
+
+Paths with generic parameters in expressions must prefix the opening brackets with a `::`.
+Combined with the angular brackets for generics, this looks like a fish `::<>`.
+As such, this syntax is colloquially referred to as turbofish syntax.
+
+Examples:
+
+```rust
+let ok_num = Ok::<_, ()>(5);
+let vec = [1, 2, 3].iter().map(|n| n * 2).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+```
+
+This `::` prefix is required to disambiguate generic paths with multiple comparisons in a comma-separate list.
+See [the bastion of the turbofish][turbofish test] for an example.
+
### Uncovered type
A type which does not appear as an argument to another type. For example,
@@ -286,6 +302,7 @@ example of an uninhabited type is the [never type] `!`, or an enum with no varia
[structs]: items/structs.md
[trait objects]: types/trait-object.md
[traits]: items/traits.md
+[turbofish test]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/test/ui/bastion-of-the-turbofish.rs
[types]: types.md
[undefined-behavior]: behavior-considered-undefined.md
[unions]: items/unions.md
