Code change:
Here is a minimum example of the problem. Compilation fails with following error. Which means that the fragment qualifier is not taken into account to choose which variant of the macro is to be used.
Yeah, macros don't do backtracking. You'll need to adjust the matchers to provide some other way to disambiguate.
Yes, I obviously know that I could just put brackets or whatever around one of the patterns to make it distinct. But the whole point of having fragment qualifiers is precisely to distinguish between two otherwise identical patterns. If macros cannot do it although they have the perfect tool for it, then they are stupid and ought to be improved.
It wasn't obvious to me that you knew the workaround -- sorry for assuming! Also see .
Thanks for pointing the PR. It is blocked for now, but I suppose there is still hope. Sorry for being harsh. I have been raging for months over how annoyingly limited and stupid Rust macros are, and I finally found a case general and obvious enough to justify my complaining…
triage: Macros still don't backtrack. I can't find an issue for that, though I do suspect that one exists in some form. Labeling as A-macros, though.
here is (closed).
Closing in favor of -- macro rules do not backtrack.

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text: <ins> // Copyright 2017 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT // file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at // http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license // <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed // except according to those terms. #![feature(macro_vis_matcher)] //{{{ issue 40569 ============================================================== macro_rules! my_struct { ($(#[$meta:meta])* $ident:ident) => { $(#[$meta])* struct $ident; } } my_struct!(#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)] Foo40569); fn test_40569() { assert_eq!(Foo40569, Foo40569); } //}}} //{{{ issue 26444 ============================================================== macro_rules! foo_26444 { ($($beginning:ident),*; $middle:ident; $($end:ident),*) => { stringify!($($beginning,)* $middle $(,$end)*) } } fn test_26444() { assert_eq!("a , b , c , d , e", foo_26444!(a, b; c; d, e)); assert_eq!("f", foo_26444!(; f ;)); } macro_rules! pat_26444 { ($fname:ident $($arg:pat)* =) => {} } pat_26444!(foo 1 2 5...7 =); pat_26444!(bar Some(ref x) Ok(ref mut y) &(w, z) =); //}}} //{{{ issue 40984 ============================================================== macro_rules! thread_local_40984 { () => {}; ($(#[$attr:meta])* $vis:vis static $name:ident: $t:ty = $init:expr; $($rest:tt)*) => { thread_local_40984!($($rest)*); }; ($(#[$attr:meta])* $vis:vis static $name:ident: $t:ty = $init:expr) => {}; } thread_local_40984! { // no docs #[allow(unused)] static FOO: i32 = 42; /// docs pub static BAR: String = String::from("bar"); // look at these restrictions!! pub(crate) static BAZ: usize = 0; pub(in foo) static QUUX: usize = 0; } //}}} //{{{ issue 35650 ============================================================== macro_rules! size { ($ty:ty) => { std::mem::size_of::<$ty>() }; ($size:tt) => { $size }; } fn test_35650() { assert_eq!(size!(u64), 8); assert_eq!(size!(5), 5); } //}}} //{{{ issue 27832 ============================================================== macro_rules! m { ( $i:ident ) => (); ( $t:tt $j:tt ) => (); } m!(c); m!(t 9); m!(0 9); m!(struct); m!(struct Foo); macro_rules! m2 { ( $b:expr ) => (); ( $t:tt $u:tt ) => (); } m2!(3); m2!(1 2); m2!(_ 1); m2!(enum Foo); //}}} //{{{ issue 39964 ============================================================== macro_rules! foo_39964 { ($a:ident) => {}; (_) => {}; } foo_39964!(_); //}}} //{{{ issue 34030 ============================================================== macro_rules! foo_34030 { ($($t:ident),* /) => {}; } foo_34030!(a, b/); foo_34030!(a/); foo_34030!(/); //}}} //{{{ issue 24189 ============================================================== macro_rules! foo_24189 { ( pub enum $name:ident { $( #[$attr:meta] )* $var:ident } ) => { pub enum $name { $( #[$attr] )* $var } }; } foo_24189! { pub enum Foo24189 { #[doc = "Bar"] Baz } } macro_rules! serializable { ( $(#[$struct_meta:meta])* pub struct $name:ident { $( $(#[$field_meta:meta])* $field:ident: $type_:ty ),* , } ) => { $(#[$struct_meta])* pub struct $name { $( $(#[$field_meta])* $field: $type_ ),* , } } } serializable! { #[allow(dead_code)] /// This is a test pub struct Tester { #[allow(dead_code)] name: String, } } macro_rules! foo_24189_c { ( $( > )* $x:ident ) => { }; } foo_24189_c!( > a ); fn test_24189() { let _ = Foo24189::Baz; let _ = Tester { name: "".to_owned() }; } //}}} //{{{ some more tests ========================================================== macro_rules! test_block { (< $($b:block)* >) => {} } test_block!(<>); test_block!(<{}>); test_block!(<{1}{2}>); macro_rules! test_ty { ($($t:ty),* $(,)*) => {} } test_ty!(); test_ty!(,); test_ty!(u8); test_ty!(u8,); macro_rules! test_path { ($($t:path),* $(,)*) => {} } test_path!(); test_path!(,); test_path!(::std); test_path!(std::u8,); test_path!(any, super, super::super::self::path, X<Y>::Z<'a, T=U>); macro_rules! test_meta_block { ($($m:meta)* $b:block) => {}; } test_meta_block!(windows {}); //}}} fn main() { test_26444(); test_40569(); test_35650(); test_24189(); } </ins>