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kmcallister opened this issue Sep 13, 2016 · 0 comments
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Document relationship between Deref[Mut], ToOwned, AsRef/AsMut, Borrow[Mut], From, and Into #36435

kmcallister opened this issue Sep 13, 2016 · 0 comments
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Rust has a proliferation of conversion traits. The Book has a chapter on "Borrow and AsRef" but it doesn't really clear things up. It would be great to have a document which explains how all the traits inter-relate, and how to pick one for a given use case.
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