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Rollup merge of #79360 - wchargin:wchargin-doc-iter-by-reference, r=m-ou-se
std::iter: document iteration over `&T` and `&mut T` A colleague of mine is new to Rust, and mentioned that it was “slightly confusing” to figure out what `&mut` does in iterating over `&mut foo`: ```rust for value in &mut self.my_vec { // ... } ``` My colleague had read the `std::iter` docs and not found the answer there. There is a brief section at the top about “the three forms of iteration”, which mentions `iter_mut`, but it doesn’t cover the purpose of `&mut coll` for a collection `coll`. This patch adds an explanatory section to the docs. I opted to create a new section so that it can appear after the note that `impl<I: Iterator> IntoIterator for I`, and it’s nice for the existing “three forms of iteration” to appear near the top. Test Plan: Ran `./x.py doc library/core`, and the result looked good, including links. Manually copy-pasted the two doctests into the playground and ran them. wchargin-branch: doc-iter-by-reference
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//! 2. If you're creating a collection, implementing [`IntoIterator`] for it
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//! will allow your collection to be used with the `for` loop.
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//!
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//! # Iterating by reference
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//!
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//! Since [`into_iter()`] takes `self` by value, using a `for` loop to iterate
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//! over a collection consumes that collection. Often, you may want to iterate
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//! over a collection without consuming it. Many collections offer methods that
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//! provide iterators over references, conventionally called `iter()` and
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//! `iter_mut()` respectively:
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//!
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//! ```
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//! let mut values = vec![41];
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//! for x in values.iter_mut() {
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//! *x += 1;
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//! }
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//! for x in values.iter() {
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//! assert_eq!(*x, 42);
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//! }
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//! assert_eq!(values.len(), 1); // `values` is still owned by this function.
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//! ```
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//!
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//! If a collection type `C` provides `iter()`, it usually also implements
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//! `IntoIterator` for `&C`, with an implementation that just calls `iter()`.
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//! Likewise, a collection `C` that provides `iter_mut()` generally implements
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//! `IntoIterator` for `&mut C` by delegating to `iter_mut()`. This enables a
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//! convenient shorthand:
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//!
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//! ```
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//! let mut values = vec![41];
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//! for x in &mut values { // same as `values.iter_mut()`
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//! *x += 1;
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//! }
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//! for x in &values { // same as `values.iter()`
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//! assert_eq!(*x, 42);
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//! }
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//! assert_eq!(values.len(), 1);
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//! ```
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//!
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//! While many collections offer `iter()`, not all offer `iter_mut()`. For
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//! example, mutating the keys of a [`HashSet<T>`] or [`HashMap<K, V>`] could
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//! put the collection into an inconsistent state if the key hashes change, so
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//! these collections only offer `iter()`.
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//!
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//! [`into_iter()`]: IntoIterator::into_iter
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//! [`HashSet<T>`]: ../../std/collections/struct.HashSet.html
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//! [`HashMap<K, V>`]: ../../std/collections/struct.HashMap.html
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//!
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//! # Adapters
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//!
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//! Functions which take an [`Iterator`] and return another [`Iterator`] are
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