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This document is the result of conversations that came out of this tweet: https://twitter.com/withoutboats/status/814201265575981056

Rust's module system is too confusing

Empirically, very many new users of Rust are confused by Rust's module system. This is unfortunate: Rust's module system is not particularly innovative or powerful; it is intended only to provide fairly standard privacy and namespacing support. Too much of new users' attention is being pulled by this system as it exists today.

This document presents an hypothesis of the cause of the confusion, and an attempt to mitigate that confusion by instituting a practice that is more similar to mainstream languages. We believe this problem is caused by the confluence of a several well-motivated design decisions that have created a very unusual system, and the solution is to require less declarations by leveraging ambient information in a manner more similar to how other languages' module systems work.

Rust requires users to build an explicit

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use std::thread;
use std::sync::mpsc::{Receiver, channel};
use std::time::Duration;

struct MyJoin<T> {
    handle: thread::JoinHandle<T>,
    signal: Receiver<()>
}

impl<T> MyJoin<T> {

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// Crate-specific settings. Note that we set these here rather than in the
// 'build.rustflags' section of .cargo/config.toml because we want them to
// apply to compilation of our crate only, not to dependency code that we have
// no control over. Also, specifying them via the RUSTFLAGS environment
// variable or via cargo-rustc(1) is much less reliable because we do not have
// any build-tool wrapping (Makefile, GNU Autotools, etc.).

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