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# Splitting Borrows

The mutual exclusion property of mutable references can be very limiting when
working with a composite structure. The borrow checker understands some basic
stuff, but will fall over pretty easily. It does understand structs
sufficiently to know that it's possible to borrow disjoint fields of a struct
simultaneously. So this works today:
working with a composite structure. The borrow checker (a.k.a. borrowck)
understands some basic stuff, but will fall over pretty easily. It does
understand structs sufficiently to know that it's possible to borrow disjoint
fields of a struct simultaneously. So this works today:

```rust
struct Foo {
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