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Re:Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions by inejge on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:14AM (#38527366)
Non-lexical lifetimes are, in my experience, pretty uncommon in most non-library code.

To avoid confusing the newcomers: lifetimes are always non-lexical (see [1] for the pedantic details.) I suppose you meant that explicit lifetime annotations are pretty uncommon, which is not wrong.

[1] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/08/05/nll-by-default.html

Re:Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions by packetlost on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:58PM (#38534510)
Oh yeah, wrong terminology. My bad!