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include! Is a Macro with Dark Power

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. The macro include! can be used to inline the conent of file as long as the resulted Rust code is valid! It can be extremely flexible, however, the included file is placed in the surrounding code unhygienically. It is suggested that you limited the use of include!

Develop Macros in Rust

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Useful Crates for Macro Development

syn

Syn is a parsing library for parsing a stream of Rust tokens into a syntax tree of Rust source code.

quote

Quote provides the quote! macro for turning Rust syntax tree data structures into tokens of source code.