> Effectively, this would mean that a data structure, like a linked list, would have a pointer pointing to the head which has a lifetime, and then every node in

> Effectively, this would mean that a data structure, like a linked list, would have a pointer pointing to the head which has a lifetime, and then every node in the list you can reach from that head has the same lifetime. Right, isn't that what GhostCell and its variants (QCell) are all about? This would be great if it led to a more elegant and principled implementation of that pattern, that could also end up being fully supported in Rust itself.