Add new reserved lifetime: 'owned
Rust Internals [Unofficial]
April 4, 2026
In this particular case yes, however consider this example with general clone_with_string_type function that accepts another generic parameter for new string type Rust Playground, in this case we have to specify lifetimes because new string type (NS) can potentially also be a reference. So we can have multiple conversions: &'static str -> String, &'buffer str -> String, &'static str -> &'buffer str, etc.
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