Macros in nested modules?

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Hello! I was attempting to make a toy OS per https://os.phil-opp.com/ and was cleaning up some of the modules. Now, through this I ran into the issue of with nested modules, one cannot import macros through the interface.

I created a test for this in a playground and I found that indeed one cannot import these macros.

So I guess my question goes twofold.

  1. Why does this not work?
  2. Are there any workarounds?
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Macros have lexical scope (they don't exist before they appear in the source). You need to move the modules up to before the macro is used. Also, #[macro_export] is just for exporting macros from a crate.

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Thank you so much this fixed it right up.