Relative paths in Rust 2018

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By the way, there’s a very simple approximation to the "use ident::suffix takes ident either from the current module or from the extern crate list" idea.

It’s desugaring into two “fused” imports

use ident::suffix;

=>

use extern::ident::suffix;
use self::ident::suffix;

using some tweaked error reporting (“if one import fails, but another succeeds, then it’s ok”, like with imports from several namespaces).

It was prototyped and tested before for a slightly different idea:

use ident::suffix;

=>

use crate::ident::suffix;
use self::ident::suffix;

and caused some minor but unacceptable-in-the-same-edition breakage, but we can easily adopt it as a cross-edition change.

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