> Actually, I wish Rust had done one thing that Go did: namespacing the pragmas.
Yeah, of all the papercuts that the Rust 1.0 macros system had the idiosyncratic modularization/namespacing rules were the most unfortunate. Happily there's already an accepted RFC for the design of macro modularization (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1561-macr...) that simply makes all macros operate under the same namespacing rules as all other items, and it looks to be mostly implemented as well (though it won't hit stable Rust until the larger macros 2.0 initiative is finished). And as for future-proofing, I'm not too concerned: all the "standard" macros can be exported from the stdlib prelude without a problem, and any libs that update to macros 2.0 can easily export the updated macros just like any other public item and consumers can update their code with only a single `use` declaration (it's not like the old macros system doesn't require explicit importing anyway, it's just unique and janky). Very much looking forward to the simplicity and consistency of the new system.
Yeah, of all the papercuts that the Rust 1.0 macros system had the idiosyncratic modularization/namespacing rules were the most unfortunate. Happily there's already an accepted RFC for the design of macro modularization (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1561-macr...) that simply makes all macros operate under the same namespacing rules as all other items, and it looks to be mostly implemented as well (though it won't hit stable Rust until the larger macros 2.0 initiative is finished). And as for future-proofing, I'm not too concerned: all the "standard" macros can be exported from the stdlib prelude without a problem, and any libs that update to macros 2.0 can easily export the updated macros just like any other public item and consumers can update their code with only a single `use` declaration (it's not like the old macros system doesn't require explicit importing anyway, it's just unique and janky). Very much looking forward to the simplicity and consistency of the new system.