What's the conceptual difference between `Iterator` and `IntoIterator`?
Like for instance, `Vec` implements `IntoIterator`, which means it may be converted to a type that implements `Iterator`. But what stopped the people who implemented `IntoIterator` for `Vec` to have it directly implement `Iterator`?
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Grégoire Locqueville
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