Why does the first code snippet fail with error error[E0599]: no method named abs found for type {integer} in the current scope: let a = 3; println!("{}", a.abs()); whereas, on specifying the type explicitly, this passes: let a = 3_i32; println!("{}", a.abs()); Isn't the default inferred ty…

Calling methods on fallback integer type?

sanxiyn September 4, 2019, 2:36pm 2

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