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Re:Proposal: expression to create pointer to simple types by masklinn on Monday April 19, 2021 @11:17AM (#26863675)
> You can only take a reference to an lvalue, which is (essentially) an expression that is legal to use in the form `my_lvalue = ….

I mean it could implicitly allocate, that's what Rust does for instance.

Your second and third attempts would not compile though, the first would by returning a `&'static T`.

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Re:Proposal: expression to create pointer to simple types by steveklabnik on Monday April 19, 2021 @11:55AM (#26864187)
"implicitly allocate" is slightly misleading, imho. It's promoted to a static. There's no malloc involved.
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Re:Proposal: expression to create pointer to simple types by masklinn on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:02PM (#26864275)
> "implicitly allocate" is slightly misleading

Maybe. I just meant that storage is created implicitly (static or stackframe depending on the case), then a reference is created to that.,

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Re:Proposal: expression to create pointer to simple types by steveklabnik on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:40PM (#26864775)
Totally, I don't think you're wrong, just like, people read "allocate" in different ways. I wish words were clearer, heh.
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