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resolve how to handle constants and default binding modes #44849

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@nikomatsakis

Another interesting question that @tschottdorf encountered when implementing default binding modes: What do we do with constants? The RFC specifies that we ought to treat a FOO binding that resolves to a constant as something which can skip through &T types -- however, that runs into trouble if the type of the constant itself is &str or &[T]. The current logic at least skips through all &T or &mut T types when it skips through any, but handling &str correctly would require skipping through "only the right number".

@tschottdorf implemented various rules but we should at minimum update the RFC to match.

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