From 36e2c100bfae61c8d7bc275829b4c9c9e66e7062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Anderson <banderson@mozilla.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:18:11 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] tutorial: Integrate constants into main intro text

---
 doc/tutorial.md | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/tutorial.md b/doc/tutorial.md
index 6fc379b6c67..5132cdd6014 100644
--- a/doc/tutorial.md
+++ b/doc/tutorial.md
@@ -221,11 +221,11 @@ qualified name. For more details, see the section on [crates](#crates).
 
 Although Rust can almost always infer the types of local variables, you
 can specify a variable's type by following it with a colon, then the type
-name.
+name. Constants, an the other hand, always require a type annotation.
 
 ~~~~
-let monster_size: float = 57.8;
-let imaginary_size = monster_size * 10.0;
+const monster_factor: float = 57.8;
+let monster_size: float = monster_factor * 10.0;
 let monster_size: int = 50;
 ~~~~