Yes, Rust will not automatically turn a value into a reference for you. A reference is the semantic you desire. If you have a value, you’re gonna have to toss &

Yes, Rust will not automatically turn a value into a reference for you. A reference is the semantic you desire. If you have a value, you’re gonna have to toss & on it. That’s the idiomatic way to do this, not to pass a value and clone it. &str is Copy, String is not.