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Diffstat (limited to 'src/libsyntax/parse')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs b/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs index ca362ec9368..c34317e649d 100644 --- a/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs +++ b/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs @@ -6007,7 +6007,9 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> { } if self.check_keyword(keywords::Const) { - return Err(self.span_fatal(self.span, "extern items cannot be `const`")); + let mut err = self.span_fatal(self.span, "extern items cannot be `const`"); + err.help("use `static` instead"); + return Err(err); } // FIXME #5668: this will occur for a macro invocation: |