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> &'static str I'm hoping there's a more...friendly way to write that (I'm assuming that's for literals). Edit: ~str, see: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wik

• pcwalton 13y ago
  No, "&'static str" is the type of a string literal. It's pretty easy to parse once you're familiar with lifetimes: it means "a reference to a string that lives forever".
• steveklabnik 13y ago
  The friendliest way to write it is to simply not and let the compiler infer it.
  • AnimalMuppet 13y ago
    That is in fact the best way... until it's not. If I understand correctly (and I may not), there are times when you have to write it.
    • dbaupp 13y ago
      You're correct; at the moment function signatures have to be written in full. (This may be relaxed slightly in future, that said, it's very very unlikely to be loosened to full Haskell-style whole-program inference.)
• termie 13y ago
  Stuff like this is going to scare a lot of people away, sadly.