diff --git a/docs/coulomb-pureconfig.md b/docs/coulomb-pureconfig.md index 537a4f8c8..004975b79 100644 --- a/docs/coulomb-pureconfig.md +++ b/docs/coulomb-pureconfig.md @@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ val fail = bad.load[Config] ## Integer Values In coulomb, conversion operations on integer values are considered to be -[truncating][truncating conversions]. +truncating conversions. They may lose precision due to integer truncation. -Truncating conversions are generally explicit only, +Truncating conversions are generally not supported in coulomb, because this loss of precision is numerically unsafe. In pureconfig I/O, however, there is no way to explicitly invoke a truncating conversion.