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	Merge pull request #5035 from ethereum/moreTypesUpdates
[DOCS] Final updates to types section.
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				| @ -1059,11 +1059,13 @@ If ``a`` is an LValue (i.e. a variable or something that can be assigned to), th | ||||
| delete | ||||
| ------ | ||||
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 | ||||
| ``delete a`` assigns the initial value for the type to ``a``. I.e. for integers it is equivalent to ``a = 0``, but it can also be used on arrays, where it assigns a dynamic array of length zero or a static array of the same length with all elements reset. For structs, it assigns a struct with all members reset. | ||||
| ``delete a`` assigns the initial value for the type to ``a``. I.e. for integers it is equivalent to ``a = 0``, but it can also be used on arrays, where it assigns a dynamic array of length zero or a static array of the same length with all elements reset. For structs, it assigns a struct with all members reset. In other words, the value of ``a`` after ``delete a`` is the same as if ``a`` would be declared without assignment, with the following caveat: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| ``delete`` has no effect on whole mappings (as the keys of mappings may be arbitrary and are generally unknown). So if you delete a struct, it will reset all members that are not mappings and also recurse into the members unless they are mappings. However, individual keys and what they map to can be deleted. | ||||
| ``delete`` has no effect on mappings (as the keys of mappings may be arbitrary and are generally unknown). So if you delete a struct, it will reset all members that are not mappings and also recurse into the members unless they are mappings. However, individual keys and what they map to can be deleted: If ``a`` is a mapping, then ``delete a[x]`` will delete the value stored at ``x``. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| It is important to note that ``delete a`` really behaves like an assignment to ``a``, i.e. it stores a new object in ``a``. | ||||
| This distinction is visible when ``a`` is reference variable: It will only reset ``a`` itself, not the | ||||
| value it referred to previously. | ||||
| 
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| :: | ||||
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| @ -1076,7 +1078,7 @@ It is important to note that ``delete a`` really behaves like an assignment to ` | ||||
|         function f() public { | ||||
|             uint x = data; | ||||
|             delete x; // sets x to 0, does not affect data | ||||
|             delete data; // sets data to 0, does not affect x which still holds a copy | ||||
|             delete data; // sets data to 0, does not affect x | ||||
|             uint[] storage y = dataArray; | ||||
|             delete dataArray; // this sets dataArray.length to zero, but as uint[] is a complex object, also | ||||
|             // y is affected which is an alias to the storage object | ||||
| @ -1105,12 +1107,15 @@ makes sense semantically and no information is lost: ``uint8`` is convertible to | ||||
| (because ``uint256`` cannot hold e.g. ``-1``). | ||||
| Any integer type that can be converted to ``uint160`` can also be converted to ``address``. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| For more details, please consult the sections about the types themselves. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Explicit Conversions | ||||
| -------------------- | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| If the compiler does not allow implicit conversion but you know what you are | ||||
| doing, an explicit type conversion is sometimes possible. Note that this may | ||||
| give you some unexpected behaviour so be sure to test to ensure that the | ||||
| give you some unexpected behaviour and allows you to bypass some security | ||||
| features of the compiler, so be sure to test that the | ||||
| result is what you want! Take the following example where you are converting | ||||
| a negative ``int8`` to a ``uint``: | ||||
| 
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| @ -1209,3 +1214,5 @@ Addresses | ||||
| 
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| As described in :ref:`address_literals`, hex literals of the correct size that pass the checksum | ||||
| test are of ``address`` type. No other literals can be implicitly converted to the ``address`` type. | ||||
| 
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| Explicit conversions from ``bytes20`` or any integer type to ``address`` results in ``address payable``. | ||||
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