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nikomatsakis
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| - The vast majority of methods borrow `self`, rather than taking it by value. | ||
| - Usually the name of a method makes obvious whether the `self` borrow will be |
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Nit: "makes it obvious"
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| - The vast majority of methods borrow `self`, rather than taking it by value. | ||
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| mutable or not (e.g. `push` versus `len`). |
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| mutable or not (e.g. `push` versus `len`). | ||
| - The borrow checker will prevent any incorrect borrowing, though if borrowing | ||
| were too implicit, it could make debugging borrow check errors harder. |
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Nit: "borrow-check errors"
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| But we could easily allow you to write `read_config(path)`, implicitly borrowing | ||
| `path` for `read_config` and then *dropping it* immediately afterwards. That |
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I still feel like it might be helpful to say, effectively desugaring into something like:
let config = {
let tmp = path;
read_config(&tmp)
};but perhaps the syntax is too fancy
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