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[-] Flipper@feddit.org 41 points 3 weeks ago

Deref is for smart pointers and not for inheritance.

[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

Let me introduce you to this horror story: Deref Polymorphism https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/anti_patterns/deref.html

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The windows crate is full of Deref. Because the windows API is full of inheritance.

It may not be what the trait was thought of for, but I'm glad we have it to interface with APIs that have actual inheritance.

[-] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Also sometimes newtypes

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