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Clarify pub use example. Fixes #2716.
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carols10cents committed Mar 29, 2022
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<span class="caption">Listing 7-17: Making a name available for any code to use
from a new scope with `pub use`</span>

By using `pub use`, external code can now call the `add_to_waitlist` function
using `hosting::add_to_waitlist`. If we hadn’t specified `pub use`, the
`eat_at_restaurant` function could call `hosting::add_to_waitlist` in its
scope, but external code couldn’t take advantage of this new path.
Before this change, external code would have to call the `add_to_waitlist`
function by using the path
`restaurant::front_of_house::hosting::add_to_waitlist()`. Now that this `pub
use` has re-exported the `hosting` module from the root module, external code
can now use the path `restaurant::hosting::add_to_waitlist()` instead.

Re-exporting is useful when the internal structure of your code is different
from how programmers calling your code would think about the domain. For
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