An attempt was made to retrieve an associated type, but the type was ambiguous. Erroneous code example: ```compile_fail,E0223 trait MyTrait {type X; } fn main() { let foo: MyTrait::X; } ``` The problem here is that we're attempting to take the type of X from MyTrait. Unfortunately, the type of X is not defined, because it's only made concrete in implementations of the trait. A working version of this code might look like: ``` trait MyTrait {type X; } struct MyStruct; impl MyTrait for MyStruct { type X = u32; } fn main() { let foo: ::X; } ``` This syntax specifies that we want the X type from MyTrait, as made concrete in MyStruct. The reason that we cannot simply use `MyStruct::X` is that MyStruct might implement two different traits with identically-named associated types. This syntax allows disambiguation between the two.