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## Lifetime Elision

Rust supports powerful local type inference in the bodies of functions but not in their item signatures.
It's forbidden to allow reasoning about types based on the item signature alone.
Rust supports powerful local type inference in the bodies of functions, but it
deliberately does not perform any reasoning about types for item signatures.
However, for ergonomic reasons, a very restricted secondary inference algorithm called
“lifetime elision” does apply when judging lifetimes. Lifetime elision is concerned solely with inferring
lifetime parameters using three easily memorizable and unambiguous rules. This means lifetime elision
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