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by Diggsey 2539 days ago
I would just read the words, "use" "standard" "fs" "file" and wouldn't pronounce the "::" at all.
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so the " :: ' has no verbal meaning, it's just a way of linking traits, libraries, functions,or crates? Not easy to explain
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 """

std pronounced "stud" with a very very short "u".