A Note About Rust Smart Pointer and Deref
this article assumes you have some basic knowledge about Rust smart pointers. the dereference (*) operator dereference operator * is used for getting the actual value from a reference: 1 2 3 let a: i32 = 5; let b: &i32 = &a; assert_eq!(*b, 5); in the above example, b is a reference to a, *b will return the value that b pointing to. the smart pointers Box<T> here is an example of how you can init and modify the value of a Box: ...