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Unnecessary lifetime annotations

Checks for lifetime annotations which can be removed by relying on lifetime elision. Corresponds to needless_lifetimes lint from Rust Clippy.

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

RsNeedlessLifetimes
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Inspection ID: RsNeedlessLifetimes

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection RsNeedlessLifetimes

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

    Inspection Details

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    Can be installed with plugin:

    Rust, 252.26665.0

    Last modified: 18 September 2025