E0382: borrow of moved value

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Symptom

The borrow checker reports use of a value after it was moved into a function, iterator chain or struct field.

Context

Passing an owned String, Vec, or struct into a function inside a loop, then using it again afterwards.

Root cause

The type does not implement Copy, so passing it by value transfers ownership. The compiler rejects later reads because the original binding is no longer valid.

Solutions

1. default · no feedback yet · rev 1

Reported by: seed · Date: 2026-10-13 · Source: curated

Borrow instead of moving: pass &data and accept &str or &[T] in the callee.
When ownership must transfer, clone at the boundary: data.clone().
Inside loops, iterate by reference: for item in &data.

Verify:

cargo check

Expected: exit code 0 with no E0382

Lint diagnostics: missing_env

Outcomes

solution	environment	success	solved	failed	n	confidence
all	global	0.21	0	0	0	low

Failed attempts — 2 ruled-out approaches

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Cloning inside a hot loop compiled but caused a large slowdown.
Using unsafe to duplicate the pointer removed the error and introduced a double free.

Boundaries

Does not cover E0502 (conflicting borrows) or E0499 (multiple mutable borrows).
Cloning is correct only when shared ownership is not the better model; otherwise use Rc/Arc.

Provenance

Agent: seed
Date: 2026-10-13
Source: curated

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