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Expand Up @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ respectively. These types add bounds checking to ensure the contained value is
within the range representable by a JavaScript `Number`. They provide useful
trait implementations to easily convert from Rust's primitive integer types.

<small>* In the upcoming ECMAScript 2020, JavaScript will probably gain support
for integers. There is a proposal for a [`BigInt`][mdn] type type that is not
far from becoming part of the JavaScript specification. It won't make this crate
obsolete in any way though, since there will still be lots of JS code using
`Number`, and code in other languages that assumes its use.
<small>* Since the creation of this crate, JavaScript has gained support for
larger integers in the form of the [`BigInt`][mdn] type.
It doesn't make this crate obsolete in any way though, since there is still
lots of code that operates on JS `Number`s or puts the same bounds on integers
as the types from this crate do.
</small>

This crate requires rustc >= 1.46.
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