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[Walter Bright]

On 12/14/2025 4:28 AM, Paul Backus wrote:
> Yes, but Rust's lifetimes are more flexible than dip1000's lifetimes, and allow 
> code to be written in a more intuitive way.
> 
> For example, it is impossible with dip1000 to declare two variables with exactly 
> the same lifetime as each other, even if they are contain the same value. To 
> work around this, you have to combine the two variables into a single value, 
> like a tuple or a static array--which makes the code less natural to read.

I'm aware of that, and in my looking into Rust it seemed like that feature was 
very rarely needed.