In the A module as a section of a file section, the a_second_thing function is part of the same module as a_thing, so it's automatically allowed to use the short version of the other function's name to refer to it. However, code outside of the module needs to use the full name to refer to items inside the module. There are two ways this can be done. It can either be done directly, which is a good choice if we don't expect to be referring to the item often, or we can tell Rust that we want to use the short name for an item in a different module, which is a good choice if we're going to be using that item often in our code.