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adastra22 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker

I think his point is the lifetime you’d put there is identical to the lifetime that is inferred/elided. So there is literally no difference.

steveklabnik 6 months ago [–]

I thought they meant the case where you go "ugh, I don't want to write a lifetime here" and then change your code, because you have to. If you don't have to, then yes, there's literally no difference.

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