First draft of primitive types

[steveklabnik]

I moved slices to references, since they are references, and explaining
them right now is just more complex. I might do that with &str too...

#9

[mdinger]

Nit: reuse doesn't need a dash

[mdinger]

I think this reads fine in general. What I'm unsure of is whether it is a good idea to explain Debug and panic here. While it does make a lot of sense to place them here in this context, they also appear elsewhere in many other independent contexts. In those cases, it may not be obvious where Debug and panic are explained and may be very surprising to only find them in the arrays section.

Having said that, if this is the only current explanation of those topics, put them in. Later when more expansive sections are present which cover those topics, you could defer to them a little more.

Really nice that these sections are being added.

Woah, this is a new repo. I guess I missed that happening.

[steveklabnik]

What I'm unsure of is whether it is a good idea to explain Debug and panic here. While it does make a lot of sense to place them here in this context, they also appear elsewhere in many other independent contexts.

In general, this is an aside, to explain the bits now. It's not "the place you go to look up panic"

Woah, this is a new repo. I guess I missed that happening.

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/what-are-you-folks-working-on-this-week-51-2015/3957/2 :)

[mdinger]

That's so cool and it's really great you're testing out mdbook at this larger scale. It really helps to keep the developer wanting to push it forward. Really cool.