Module with builtin types

[matklad]

Is there an stdlib module with build in types, like the one in go? I’d love to use it to provide goto definition/quick documentation for builtins. I’ve only found primitive_docs.rs, but it won’t work that easily because the names of primitives are different.

I wish it were

#[allow_bultin_shadowing]
type bool = bool;

rather then

#[doc(primitive = "bool")]
mod prim_bool { }

[matklad]

Just a curiosity, in 1.10 error for type bool = bool is E0391, cyclic references, in 1.9 it was E0317, builtin shadowing.

[petrochenkov]

You may be interested in this PR which did very similar thing (but more ambitious), but was decided against after all.

As for type bool = bool;, there’s a simple workaround

mod detail {
    pub type __bool = bool;
}

type bool = detail::__bool;

, so a module with primitive types can be added to the standard library. It would be useful in situation where a primitive type needs to be addressed by an absolute name, like here.

[system]

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