Rust Conversion traits Deref & DerefMut
Example
The std::ops::Deref and std::ops::DerefMut traits are used for overloading the dereference operator, *x. For types A and B,
impl Deref<Target=B> for A
indicates that dereferencing a binding of &A will yield a &B and,
impl DerefMut for A
indicates that dereferencing a binding of &mut A will yield a &mut B.
Deref (resp. DerefMut) also provides a useful language feature called deref coercion, which allows a &A (resp. &mut A) to automatically coerce to a &B (resp. &mut B). This is commonly used when converting from String to &str, as &String is implicitly coerced to &str as needed.
Note: DerefMut does not support specifying the resulting type, it uses the same type as Deref does.
Note: Due to the use of an associated type (unlike in AsRef), a given type can only implement each of Deref and DerefMut at most once.
