rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy

`enum_glob_use` suggestion doesn't match docs

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Description

Summary

The suggestion emitted by the enum_glob_use lint does not align with its documented guidance. The lint recommends importing enum variants into scope, whereas the documentation indicates that using fully qualified (prefixed) variant names is the preferred approach.

Context: https://github.com/pendulum-project/ntpd-rs/commit/48ea93ee39258c78310f9edcae2ef11f646322fe
Reproducer: https://rust.godbolt.org/z/9618T4s9v

Reproducer

I tried this code:

pub enum Foo {
    A,
    B,
}

use Foo::*;

pub fn main() {
    let _ = A;
}

I expected to see this happen:

pub fn main() {
    let _ = Foo::A;
}

Instead, this happened:

use Foo::A;

pub fn main() {
    let _ = A;
}
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