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Me, after carefully reading Rust's ownership and borrow checker rules (lemmy.world)
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[–] harrowhawk 5 points 3 weeks ago

I like this rule of thumb and it goes nicely with the “if you have more than 3 arguments to a function, consider making a struct to pass the arguments in” rule of thumb because

You can have the struct use a named lifetime (or several) for the different parameters so it doesn’t own them!

Best of both worlds.