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Comment by 8K832d7tNmiQ | Hacker News Reader

importing a module is the most fustrating part of writing rust code next to writing a multiple-spawn tasks.

Can someone help me how to import a module in lib/m.rs from lib.rs ? I've never seen someone asked about it.

Folder structure

    src/lib.rs
        lib/
            mod.rs
            m.rs

In lib.rs

    use lib::m;

In lib/mod.rs

    pub mod m;

You need the mod.rs file in subdirectories.

Rust has two distinct semantics surrounding how items can be "in scope".

First, the `mod` keyword takes a module that the current file/scope can see and makes it available within that file/scope as if it had been defined there. This is necessary to make the module's items accessible, i.e., specifiable by their path within the module, in the current file/scope.

Then the `use` keyword takes an already-accessible member of a named scope -- a module, a type, etc -- and makes it usable by name (i.e., without scoping on each use) in the current scope.

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