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Rust copied this misstake. Rust would have been neater if taking references and dereferencing were postix operators. At least they made await a postfix operator

• ModernMech 5y ago
  To Rust's credit, 90% of the time I find I don't need to dereference much at all. For example, when you make a method call on a reference, you don't have to dereference first, and there is no -> operator in Rust. The only time I ever really have to dereference manually in my experience is if I'm matching on some struct reference, and I want to take some field and put it in a new place. e.g. match &foo { Foo{bar} => Baz{quux: *bar}, _ => (), } (not valid Rust but you get the point)