It definitely would make sens to include this in the docs for `Deref`. I suspect the reason people hadn't thought to do that yet is because there's nothing spec

It definitely would make sens to include this in the docs for `Deref`. I suspect the reason people hadn't thought to do that yet is because there's nothing specific to `Deref` about this behavior; it works the same whenever methods are present on a type due to trait definition[0] (although I imagine it's potentially less confusing for other traits given that the methods they provide are explicitly listed rather than implicit via the associated type). It's also worth noting that if the ambiguity is between two trait impls rather than the concrete type and one of its trait impls, the compiler does require explicit disambiguation (either by calling the method as a top-level function on the trait and passing in the `self` parameter or by casting before calling the method)[1]. [0]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=c859cc6877005b245dc5825ae04f62bb https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio... [1]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=f7ca6f5224c6511cfb271d3d67d512b4 https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...