A 'static lifetime is the longest possible lifetime, and lasts for the lifetime of the running program. A 'static lifetime may also be coerced to a shorter lifetime. There are two ways to make a variable with 'static lifetime, and both are stored in the read-only memory of the binary:

• Make a constant with the static declaration.
• Make a string literal which has type: &'static str.

See the following example for a display of each method:

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'static constants