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lifetime

The stretch of the program in which a reference is valid.

A lifetime is the region of a program during which a reference is guaranteed valid.

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Examples

  • let r; { let word = String::from("hi"); r = &word; } println!("{r}"); fails with E0597: word does not live long enough.

See also

dangling reference borrow checker lifetime parameter
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