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Clean up wording around uninitialized values. #21023

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Expand Up @@ -89,25 +89,7 @@ what you need, so it's not verboten.

Let's get back to bindings. Rust variable bindings have one more aspect that
differs from other languages: bindings are required to be initialized with a
value before you're allowed to use them. If we try...

```{ignore}
let x;
```

...we'll get an error:

```text
src/main.rs:2:9: 2:10 error: unable to infer enough type information about `_`; type annotations required
src/main.rs:2 let x;
^
```

Giving it a type will compile, though:

```{rust}
let x: i32;
```
value before you're allowed to use them.

Let's try it out. Change your `src/main.rs` file to look like this:

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