needless-borrow

Disallow direct borrows that are immediately dereferenced

Dereferencing a borrow created by the same expression returns the original value place.
Instead, you SHOULD use that value directly.

- Category: style
- Level: warning
- Fix: automatic
- Scope: module

Reported

function identity(value: int32): int32 {
    return *&value;
}
Accepted

function identity(value: int32): int32 {
    return value;
}
Prior art

- Clippy · needlessborrow

language/linter/src/rules/style/needlessborrow.rs:8