> Getters return values. This returns a pointer. So it's an accessor. With unchecked semantics. It's bizzare to me that anyone would use this technique. It's all downside with no upside.

When I use getter, I want to see the value of a field. I don't want an owned copy of said value, I just want to look at it, so returning reference makes _a lot more_ sense than returning a copy. In example it uses `i32`, but that's just for readability.

> I'm expressing surprise that anyone would do this. I'm sure you were capable of understanding that.

Yes, and I'm expressing surprised that you think it's bad. I'm not even sure what is bad? Lifetime elision that is well documented and works in a non-ambiguous manner? Using references instead of values? Do we need to memcpy overything now to please you?