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Update "Inference variables" section (#1145)
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JohnTitor authored Jun 21, 2021
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[Unification in the Chalk project]: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2017/03/25/unification-in-chalk-part-1/

All told, the inference context stores four kinds of inference variables
(as of <!-- date: 2018-01 --> January 2018):
All told, the inference context stores five kinds of inference variables
(as of <!-- date: 2021-06 --> June 2021):

- Type variables, which come in three varieties:
- General type variables (the most common). These can be unified with any
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- Float type variables, which can only be unified with a float type, and
arise from a float literal expression like `22.0`.
- Region variables, which represent lifetimes, and arise all over the place.
- Const variables, which represent constants.

All the type variables work in much the same way: you can create a new
type variable, and what you get is `Ty<'tcx>` representing an
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