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Feature request: Automatically convert String to &str when required. #17300

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@sandeep-datta

Please consider automatically converting Strings to string slices when a string is passed into a string slice context. Please pardon my total lack of experience with rust but I think this shouldn't introduce any bugs in the program since a string slice is a more restricted type than a String. Any thoughts?

Example:

fn takes_slice(slice: &str) {
    println!("Got: {}", slice);
}

fn main() {
    let s = "Hello".to_string();
    takes_slice(s);
}

instead of ...

fn main() {
    let s = "Hello".to_string();
    takes_slice(s.as_slice());
}

May be we can provide a conversion operator like C++ does?

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