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Expand Up @@ -355,6 +355,10 @@ Hello in English: Hello!
Goodbye in English: Goodbye.
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`pub` also applies to `struct`s and their member fields. In keeping with Rust’s
tendency toward safety, simply making a `struct` public won't automatically
make its members public: you must mark the fields individually with `pub`.

Now that our functions are public, we can use them. Great! However, typing out
`phrases::english::greetings::hello()` is very long and repetitive. Rust has
another keyword for importing names into the current scope, so that you can
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