Extended the module tutorial section about files a bit #9398
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| @@ -2420,7 +2420,8 @@ However, in practice you usually want to split you code up into multiple source | |||
| In order to do that, Rust allows you to move the body of any module into it's own source file, which works like this: | |||
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| If you declare a module without its body, like `mod foo;`, the compiler will look for the | |||
| files `foo.rs` and `foo/mod.rs`. If it finds either, it uses the content of that file as the body of the module. | |||
| files `foo.rs` and `foo/mod.rs` inside some directory (usually the same as of the source file containing | |||
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"Usually"? When does it not look in the same directory?
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It's explained further below that section. It will look for those two relative paths in a directory that is the the path of the source file that contains the mod ...;, concatenated with a path build by concatenating all nested mod ... { ... } statrments the mod ...; is contained in.
// src/foo/bar.rs
mod a {
mod b {
mod c; // will look for src/foo/a/b/c.rs and src/foo/a/b/c/mod..rs
}
}
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