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name: maverick-rust-ownership description: Rust ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes version: 1.0.0 triggers:

• "&"
• "&mut"
• move
• borrow
• lifetime
• "'a"
• "'static"
• clone()
• Copy
• Drop

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Rust Ownership Skill

Ownership Rules

1. Each value has exactly one owner
2. When owner goes out of scope, value is dropped
3. Values can be moved or borrowed

Borrowing Rules

• One mutable reference OR any number of immutable references
• References must always be valid

Copylet s = String::from("hello");
let r1 = &s;      // OK
let r2 = &s;      // OK
let r3 = &mut s;  // ERROR: can't borrow as mutable

Lifetimes

Copyfn longest<'a>(x: &'a str, y: &'a str) -> &'a str {
    if x.len() > y.len() { x } else { y }
}

Review Severity

• CRITICAL: Dangling references, use after move
• MAJOR: Unnecessary clones, incorrect lifetime annotations
• MINOR: Could use references instead of owned values