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gen has become a keyword in Rust 2024; code produced by fauxgen's macro uses 'gen as a lifetime name, which leads to breakage in Rust 2024 use-sites. So, rename to something else - suffixing with an underscore suffices and, while a little ugly, using these lifetimes is likely to be the rare case anyway.

This is a breaking change (as shown by tests/nested.rs needing adaptation).

Keeping the name as-is and instead using raw identifier syntax (new in Rust 2021) was an option, but introduces complications of its own: one, AIUI it would break usage in earlier editions and so still be a breaking change; two, the tests break and I'm not sure why (trybuild not using the right edition?); three, the syntax is ugly and uglier than a trailing underscore - long-term, the latter's the way to go.

I wasn't able to work out how best to test this (specifically, how to get trybuild to use a specific edition).

gen has become a keyword in Rust 2024; code produced by fauxgen's macro 
uses 'gen as a lifetime name, which leads to breakage in Rust 2024 
use-sites. So, rename to something else - suffixing with an underscore 
suffices and, while a little ugly, using these lifetimes is likely to be 
the rare case anyway.

This is a breaking change (as shown by tests/nested.rs needing 
adaptation).

Keeping the name as-is and instead using raw identifier syntax (new in 
Rust 2021) was an option, but introduces complications of its own: one, 
AIUI it would break usage in earlier editions and so still be a breaking 
change; two, the tests break and I'm not sure why (trybuild not using 
the right edition?); three, the syntax is ugly and uglier than a 
trailing underscore - long-term, the latter's the way to go.

I wasn't able to work out how best to test this (specifically, how to 
get trybuild to use a specific edition).
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DanikVitek commented Jan 26, 2026

@sepointon Using 'r#gen seems to be a better solution as it does not, in fact, break compatibility with previous editions, and they can still reference the lifetime via 'gen.
https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=750e736921316fd75d6c727366274747

They are even supported by syn and quote since recently. Cargo.lock has to be updated too

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Implemented in #5

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