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Hmm. If people would think it was annoying to println!("{}", &s) they wouldnt use rust in the first place because you have to do that everywhere else for plain functions.

Beeing permissive makes it even worse as there are now 2 inconsistent ways to do the same thing.

Maybe I need to understand rust macros better. I guess this all boils down to: macros are a very bad idea, as in other programming languages.




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