Problem with "primitives.md"

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Issue type
Documentation
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Clearly specified
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Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Review primitives.md alongside the Rust numeric types reference linked in the issue, and reproduce the two literal examples to verify the documented behavior. Done means the documentation accurately explains the default inferred integer type and the explicit isize case.

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Description

The document shows that if no type can be inferred, declarations default to isize and usize. According to this:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/primitive-types.html#numeric-types
This is not the case. Actually doing this on a 64bit machine:
let _x = 30000000000;
gives "warning: literal out of range for i32" when compiled. However,
let _x: isize = 30000000000;
gives no issues whatsoever.

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