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Update solution to add using &* as well as as_str()
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natboehm authored Aug 8, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -183,10 +183,15 @@ use boxed::Box;
/// }
/// ```
///
/// What would work in this case is changing the line
/// `example_func(&example_string);` to
/// `example_func(example_string.to_str());`. This works because we're doing
/// the conversion explicitly, rather than relying on the implicit conversion.
/// There are two options that would work instead. The first would be to
/// change the line `example_func(&example_string);` to
/// `example_func(example_string.as_str());`, using the method `as_str()`
/// to explicitly extract the string slice containing the string. The second
/// way changes `example_func(&example_string);` to
/// `example_func(&*example_string);`. In this case we are dereferencing a
/// `String` to a `str`, then referencing the `str` back to `&str`. The
/// second way is more idiomatic, however both work to do the conversion
/// explicitly rather than relying on the implicit conversion.
///
/// # Representation
///
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