Tracking Issue for future-incompatibility lint `dollar_crate_in_matcher`

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This is the tracking issue for the dollar_crate_in_matcher future-compatibility warning and other related errors. The goal of this page is to describe why this change was made and how you can fix code that is affected by it. It also provides a place to ask questions or register a complaint if you feel the change should not be made. For more information on the policy around future-compatibility warnings, see our breaking change policy guidelines.

What is the warning for?

Usage of $crate in matcher.

Why was this change made?

$crate is inconsistent with the behavior of other keywords in matchers, namely that other keywords work like any other identifier, and are currently not reserved in this position.

Example

#![deny(dollar_crate_in_matcher)]

macro_rules! m {
    ($crate) => {};
}

Recommendations

Do not use $crate in matcher.

When will this warning become a hard error?

Unknown

Steps

• Implement the lint
• Raise lint level to deny
• Change the lint to report in dependencies
• Switch to a hard error

Implementation history

• Add FCW to disallow $crate in macro matcher #155121