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rust-lang#636

Currently types like i32, f32, and str are a separate syntactic class,
which means that code like struct i32 {} produces confusing errors:

error: parse error: Unrecognized token `i32` found at 7:10
Expected one of r#"([A-Za-z]|_)([A-Za-z0-9]|_)*"#

I can't think of a reason off the top of my head why primitives have to be
special-cased in the parser rather than just being declared in libstd.chalk
(or even the IR or something). If there's a reason, I'm curious to here it!

This is probably low-priority, but it might be nice to change.

See the Zulip discussion.