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This part is exremely confusing: https://tour.val-lang.dev/bindings#lifetime Why a value declared with `let` has a lifetime? Is it because they want to avoid copying objects and data structures?

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To avoid shared mutable state, you either need copy-on-write (hence shared but not mutable) or mutable but not shared.

I understand this is the second approach.

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