rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy
unreadable_literal is annoying for hex numbers
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Description
When having hex literals in code, conciseness is usually more important than readability, so the lint seems to be counter-productive in such cases.
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Research direction
The issue concerns Clippy's unreadable_literal lint and its treatment of hexadecimal literals. Start by locating the lint implementation and its existing tests, then clarify which hex cases should be exempt or changed. Done means the agreed behavior is implemented and covered by regression tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100