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Examples of coercions are wrong #734

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martin-t opened this issue Dec 30, 2019 · 1 comment · Fixed by #843
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Examples of coercions are wrong #734

martin-t opened this issue Dec 30, 2019 · 1 comment · Fixed by #843

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martin-t commented Dec 30, 2019 •
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Several of the examples on the coercions page claim that 42 gets coerced into i8. However, no conversion takes place, the 42 is i8 already thanks to type inference.

Potentially related PR: #342
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A more suitable type pair would be &String and &str (which is a deref coercion), or &Foo and &dyn TraitFooImpls

@AloeareV AloeareV mentioned this issue Jun 30, 2020
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