rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy
Lint: Implicit Deref
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Description
Basically, an #[allow] by default lint that tells you when you are referencing a value implicitly (e.g. String::new().chars() is really (*String::new()).chars().
Rationale is that somebody out there might actually want their code to have as minimal implicit behaviour as possible.
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