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Tracking Issue for the `Freeze` trait

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Since Mar 4, 2025.

B-experimental C-tracking-issue F-freeze T-lang T-libs
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Description

Feature gate: #![feature(freeze)]

This is a tracking issue for the core::marker::Freeze trait

This trait allows generic code to restrict generic parameters to types without interior mutability.

Public API
use std::marker::Freeze;

trait Trait<T: Freeze + 'static> {
    const VALUE: T;
    const VALUE_REF: &'static T = &Self::VALUE;
}
Steps / History
  • Implementation: #121840
  • Final comment period (FCP)^1
  • Stabilization PR
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