Remove the angle brackets for lifetime

[nicoxx]

Hello,

I don’t really understand the point of declaring the lifetimes between <>. Lifetimes already appears on the function signature (on its parameters or returned value), or in the declaration of the fields of a struct.

Unlike a template, it’s already clear in the signature that it’s a lifetime because of the quote notation.

It feels like redundant information to me.

Am I missing something ?

[Gankro]

It’s possible for the lifetime to be declared as part of a parent struct/scope/impl. Just as with generic T’s, the syntax is to distinguish declaring a new generic lifetime, and using an old one form the parent scope.

[sinistersnare]

Angle brackets are where generic parameters go.

lifetimes are lifetime parameters, and “Generics” are type parameters.

[system]

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