fn main() { let s1 = String::from("sdasdasd"); let s2 = &s1[0..=1]; } With s2 how come it is a string literal and not just some pointer pointing to s1's heap data? I thought string literals are stored in the binary of the program. But if I am declaring a variable s1 that is storing the dat…

Just because something is an &str does not mean it's stored in the binary of the program. All &str means is that it is a pointer to some string data somewhere in memory. Of course, when you get it from a string literal, it points into the binary of the program, but it can also point into the heap or…

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