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  "path": "/t/private-lifetime-inference/24088#post_2",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-16T21:09:06.000Z",
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  "textContent": "It sounds to me like your biggest problem is having to update a bunch of item signatures whenever you change the lifetime annotations on a type. I think it'd be better to resolve that pain point by adding better tooling (could rust analyzer get an action to add/remove a lifetime annotation for an item?), not by changing the actual language itself.\n\nI like having item signatures be fully explicit for reading existing code, even when it's not a public API it helps me quickly understand what the code does.",
  "title": "Private lifetime inference"
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