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Maybe read a bit on Deref: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Deref.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Deref.html Any time you have a &String re

• Measter 6y ago
  Unfortunately that is not always the case. This fails to compile, for example (and is fairly irritating): let my_str = "Hello".to_owned(); match &my_str { "Hello" => (), _ => () }
  • glandium 6y ago
    try &*my_str
    • Measter 6y ago
      Yes, that's the trivial "fix" to make it work, but that's not my point. In most other similar situations the compiler does that for me, but not here. It feels like something the compiler should be doing, not me.