what would you call it? ... i remember being kind of frustrated by how long it was unstable because of that particular bikeshed, and it’s really way nicer than .map(|x| &*x)
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First preference: `Deref` was just structured in a way it could be implemented by `Option<impl Deref>`. Second preference: Inherent method called `deref` Third+ preference: Something that implies it's *calling* deref on its member, e.g. `derefed`.
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as the person who took part in implementing/naming that function: this was a huge can of worms and no one had a better suggestion, not for lack of trying
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I definitely didn't mean this as a dig at the folks responsible for the name, and I hope it didn't come off that way. It's definitely a hard method to name.
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