Introduction
Practical suggestions for building intuition around borrow errors
Sectional introduction
Keep at it and participate in the community
Prefer ownership over long-lived references
Don't hide lifetimes
Understand elision and get a feel for when to name lifetimes
Get a feel for variance, references, and reborrows
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Get a feel for borrow-returning methods
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Understand function lifetime parameters
Understand borrows within a function
Learn some pitfalls and antipatterns
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Scrutinize compiler advice
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Illustrative examples
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1. Mutable slice iterator
Circle back
Miscellanea
Sectional introduction
Slice layout
Default parameter mechanics
A tour of dyn Trait
Sectional introduction
dyn Trait overview
dyn Trait implementations
dyn Trait coercions
dyn safety (object safety)
dyn Trait lifetimes
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dyn Trait vs. alternatives
dyn Trait examples
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dyn Any

Learning Rust

Illustrative examples

Here we provide some examples and "recipes" to illustrate how lifetimes work (or don't work) in more practical settings.