From ba46f309bfc0364b019344971c19ef4dd1349f8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Kalbertodt <lukas.kalbertodt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:50:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add hint to `IntegerLit::value` docs

CC #15
---
 src/integer/mod.rs | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/integer/mod.rs b/src/integer/mod.rs
index 2a8d3a2..cecd79d 100644
--- a/src/integer/mod.rs
+++ b/src/integer/mod.rs
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ impl<B: Buffer> IntegerLit<B> {
     /// method**. This means `N` does not need to match the type suffix!
     ///
     /// Returns `None` if the literal overflows `N`.
+    ///
+    /// Hint: `u128` can represent all possible values integer literal values,
+    /// as there are no negative literals (see type docs). Thus you can, for
+    /// example, safely use `lit.value::<u128>().to_string()` to get a decimal
+    /// string. (Technically, Rust integer literals can represent arbitrarily
+    /// large numbers, but those would be rejected at a later stage by the Rust
+    /// compiler).
     pub fn value<N: FromIntegerLiteral>(&self) -> Option<N> {
         let base = N::from_small_number(self.base.value());