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The way this happened is that I vaguely remembered that you can't use mut when specifying the fields of struct and to make sure, I looked up the struct chapter in the book. Sure enough, it said "Mutability is a property of the binding, not of the structure itself."
Now, as a newbie, I thought this forbade mut in field definitions altogether even though it only forbids mut to the left of the colon and you can still have &mut as the type to the right of the colon.
It would be nice if this was briefly clarified for the benefit of newbies looking stuff up piecemeal and not properly thinking about stuff in the context of what has previously been said in an earlier chapter.