alt Hacker News> This can't possibly be guaranteed to work just by disabling the checker, can it?
It works in the sense that the borrow checker stops bothering you and the compiler will compile your code. It will even work fine as long as you don't write code which invokes UB (which does include code which would not pass the borrow checker, as the borrow checker necessarily rejects valid programs in order to forbid all invalid programs).
> It will even work fine as long as you don't write code which invokes UB (which does include code which would not pass the borrow checker, as the borrow checker necessarily rejects valid programs in order to forbid all invalid programs).
To be clear, by "this" I meant "[allowing] code that would normally violate Rust's borrowing rules to compile and run successfully," which both of us seem to believe to be UB.