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Description
Taken from this internals thread: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/is-the-module-name-meta-forbidden/9587
A module named meta
is shadowed leading to misleading error messages. meta
was reserved as a built-in crate name in 2018 edition, but the error message does not indicate this.
I tried this code:
mod meta {
pub struct Thing;
}
use meta::Thing;
fn main() {}
Above code compiled with rustc --edition 2018 {file}
This is expected to indicated that meta
is a reserved crate name.
Instead, the following error is reported:
error[E0463]: can't find crate for `meta`
--> testy.rs:5:5
|
5 | use meta::Thing;
| ^^^^ can't find crate
error: aborting due to previous error
For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0463`.
Meta
rustc --version --verbose
:
rustc 1.44.1 (c7087fe00 2020-06-17)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: c7087fe00d2ba919df1d813c040a5d47e43b0fe7
commit-date: 2020-06-17
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.44.1
LLVM version: 9.0
This issue has been assigned to @Chocol4te via this comment.