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0 pointsAlleyTrotter6y ago0 comments

so the " :: ' has no verbal meaning, it's just a way of linking traits, libraries, functions,or crates? Not easy to explain

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It's for dereferencing namespaces. "a::b::c" is analogous to a file system path /a/b/c.

I found what I was looking for in the appendix

B-3 Path related syntax """ ::path Path relative to the crate root (i.e., an explicitly absolute """

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