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This crate provides macros to help conveniently load the contents of
files during development.

`load_str!` and `load_bytes!` are modeled after `include_str!` and
`include_bytes!` from the standard library. The standard library macros
are useful in many situations, one of which is quick-and-dirty loading of
assets during a prototyping phase. (Examples of such assets are static web
assets such as CSS or GLSL shaders for a game.) The `load_*` macros aim to
offer a convenient way of loading the assets dynamically at run-time
instead. This gets rid of the need to compile or even restart for every
change while iterating on the assets.

# Example
Before:

    fn main() {
        println!("{}", include_str!("greeting.txt"));
    }

After:

    #[macro_use]
    extern crate load_file;

    fn main() {
        println!("{}", load_str!("greeting.txt"));
    }