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Description
Given the following code: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=4e7d539241dfe92a24817728751e5523
fn main() {
let value: Boolean = true;
}
The current output is:
error[E0412]: cannot find type `Boolean` in this scope
--> src/main.rs:2:16
|
2 | let value: Boolean = true;
| ^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0412`.
error: could not compile `example` due to previous error
Ideally the output should look like:
error[E0412]: cannot find type `Boolean ` in this scope
--> src/main.rs:4:16
|
4 | let value: Boolean = true;
| ^^^^^^^ help: a type with a similar meaning exists: `bool`
I stumbled here when returning to Rust after a while writing code in non-Rust languages; I'm sure I'm not the only person who's gotten the name of Rust's boolean type wrong. It's not hard to work out the correct behaviour, but I thought it would be nice if Rust could help programmers coming from other languages.
(I don't feel strongly about this suggestion and won't mind if it's closed as WONTFIX, but I know Esteban would be sad if he knew I'd had an idea for a diagnostic improvement that I didn't tell anyone.)