Notes - Various quirks

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+Methods can be called on some "statement-like" expressions
+====
+
+https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libstd/sys/common/poison.rs#L172
+```
+fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+    match *self {
+        TryLockError::Poisoned(..) => "poisoned lock: another task failed inside",
+        TryLockError::WouldBlock => "try_lock failed because the operation would block"
+    }.fmt(f)
+}
+```
+
+Method call on a statement-like match
+
+
+The `ident` fragment matches reserved words
+===
+
+Typically used for replacing `self` in macros.
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+Any integer can cast to a pointer
+===================
+This includes `u8`
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+
+Modules with the same name as primtiive types have interesting lookup quirks
+===================
+- If a path like `u32::some_name` is seen, if the module `u32` exists in the current scope and `some_name` is an item in that module
+ - Treat the path as `self::u32::some_name`
+ - Otherwise, treat it as `<u32 as ?>::some_name`
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