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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions src/doc/trpl/crates-and-modules.md
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Expand Up @@ -555,6 +555,13 @@ Here we have a `pub use` for each function we want to bring into the
`japanese` scope. We could alternatively use the wildcard syntax to include
everything from `greetings` into the current scope: `pub use self::greetings::*`.

What about the `self`? Well, by default, `use` declarations are absolute paths,
starting from your crate root. `self` makes that path relative to your current
place in the hierarchy instead. There's one more special form of `use`: you can
`use super::` to reach one level up the tree from your current location. Some
people like to think of `self` as `.` and `super` as `..`, from many shells'
display for the current directory and the parent directory.

Also, note that we `pub use`d before we declared our `mod`s. Rust requires that
`use` declarations go first.

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