rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy

Warn of obscure floating-point literals

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Since Feb 17, 2022.

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Description

What it does

This lint warns of misleading floating-point literals.
In the example, a has type i32 because floating-point literals must start with a decimal literal.
Instead of suffixes, we should use type ascriptions.

Lint Name

obscure_float_literal

Category

style

Advantage
  • Avoid ambiguity
Drawbacks

none

Example
let a = 0x1_f32; // == 0x1F32

Could be written as:

let a = 0x1 as f32;

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