Opinion: `Signal` should not be callable about dioxus HOT 3 CLOSED

The majority of methods for Signal are implemented on the Readable and Writable trait. One of the methods on the Readable trait is cloned which clones the value out of the signal.

This seems more like a docs/discoverability issue than anything else. I agree looking at the docs of Signal, it isn't clear that you can call the struct or use methods from readable and writable. It would be more clear if we included more examples in the signal docs (including calling the signal like a function) and links to the relevant traits (Readable and Writable)

Implementing the Fn trait itself would also be much more clear than Deref, but unfortunately fn_traits has not landed in stable yet.

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Thanks, that's good to know about cloned. I tried using read, but that returned a GenerationalRef which I wasn't sure what to do with.

I was unaware of fn_traits. That also seems like a bad idea in my opinion, but that's a separate issue.

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The docs were improved in #2460 to reference the readable and writable traits and include more examples

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