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Automatic dereferencing is removed (#20531)

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@ -286,29 +286,6 @@ scope. Therefore, the following will *fail to compile:*
This feature will likely be replaced with a better solution to remove
the need for forward declarations.
Automatic dereferencing
=======================
Automatic dereferencing is performed for the first argument of a routine call.
This feature has to be enabled via `{.experimental: "implicitDeref".}`:
```nim
{.experimental: "implicitDeref".}
type
NodeObj = object
# ...
Node = ref NodeObj
proc depth(x: NodeObj): int = ...
let n = Node()
echo n.depth
# no need to write n[].depth
```
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