On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM Linus Torvalds
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Although that example actually made me go "WTF?" regardless of the
> changes involved.
>
> I clearly do not understand the sorting rules either. Why are the
> "device::" entries not sorted?
Essentially, `self` (a special case) is placed first, then it puts
things like modules (i.e. `lower_case`), then things like types (i.e.
`CamelCase`), and then things like constants (i.e. `UPPERCASE`):
use crate::{
self, myitem1,
myitem1::{myitem2, MyItem2, MYITEM2},
myitem3, MyItem1,
MyItem1::{myitem2, MyItem2, MYITEM2},
MyItem3, MYITEM1,
MYITEM1::{myitem2, MyItem2, MYITEM2},
MYITEM3,
};
This got substantially changed for the next edition (2024), though --
they decided to just do version sorting (I added a 256 to show that
too):
use crate::{
self, MYITEM1,
MYITEM1::{MYITEM2, MyItem2, myitem2},
MYITEM3, MyItem1,
MyItem1::{MYITEM2, MyItem2, myitem2},
MyItem3, myitem1,
myitem1::{MYITEM2, MyItem2, myitem2},
myitem3, myitem256,
};
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/123800
You can play with the new one in Compiler Explorer (right-click ->
Format Document).
Cheers,
Miguel
