Hello! I've been working with Rust for the past couple of months. One thing I've seen many times in our codebase is something like the following:

struct MyStruct(SomeType);
// ...
my_struct.0.my_method();

For that I've implemented some Deref and DerefMut from time to time. Why isn't there a derive macro for that? It could be useful to expose the wrapped type interface whilst extending more functionality. Is there anything I'm completely missing here?

#[derive(deref(0))]
struct MyStruct(SomeType);
// ...
my_struct.my_method();

// Or acessing a field
#[derive(deref(inner_field))]
struct MyStruct{
    inner_field: SomeType,
    other_field: OtherType,
};
// ...
my_struct.my_method();

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