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This post is auto-generated from RSS feed The Rust Programming Language Forum - Latest topics. Source: Why aren't enum variant names auto imported into the `match` scope?

Suppose you have an enum:

enum Enum {
  Foo,
  Bar,
}
let x : Enum = ...;

and you want to match on x. By default, you either use qualified variant name,

match x {
  Enum::Foo => ...,
  Enum::Bar => ...,
}

or you import those names into the current scope,

use Enum::*;
match x {
  Foo => ...,
  Bar => ...,
}

But I do not see why those names are not being imported automatically only in the match's scope. That is, allow this to work by default:

match x {
  Foo => ...,
  Bar => ...,
}

And the scope outside the match is not changed. This is both cleaner and more convenient.

My question is why it doesn't work this way? Is there something I missed? Thanks.

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