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Why can consts not refer to statics? #11

Open RalfJung opened 5 years ago

RalfJung commented 5 years ago

Is there some deep fundamental reason why that can never work, or is it a limitation of the current (or a former) implementation?

RalfJung commented 8 months ago

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119614 proposes that we can unstably allow consts to refer to statics. Tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/119618