I find the modules implementation in Julia the most annoying “feature” of the language. For large projects it makes sense that developers would want to organise their code in separate modules (not packages), each one in a separate directory with a number of files. But, in Julia the executed code sh…

The order of modules don’t matter if they are independent. If they are very interdependent, then why are they modules? If they are interdependent, don’t you need to specify the direction of the dependencies?

They can have dependencies. E.g. I may have a Mesh module which does some geometry work and then a Flow module which uses the mesh for solving the flow equations using various methods stored in separate modules which may need e.g, a Thermodynamics module and a Flow Properties module which needs to c…

I think this is the same issue discussed here [image] [ANN] PatModules.jl: a better module system for Julia Package Announcements Okay, quite a lot to unpack here. Some quotes-with-answers deliberately out of chronological order for better presentation. I’ll start off …

I am not surprised to see that other people are also frustrated by the modules in Julia. I guess that if the primary purpose of Julia was to be used for Jupyter notebooks and relatively small pieces of code which make heavy use of external packages then the module system is not important. But for a …

I wouldn’t say that many people are frustrated with modules. One thread doesn’t prove it. I have used multiple modules in many (most of) my packages, and never with any ill effects or frustration.

Let’s say then that “some” people find it hard to cope with modules!

Rereading that thread I don’t quite understand the situation. Can you lay out a simple concrete scenario to discuss?

What I understand regarding the way Julia works is that it needs to have a single file with all the code inside and in the proper sequence (so that some piece of code does not e.g. uses types not defined yet but only later on) and then it executes it line after line until the end. So, if you use mu…

It seems that the issues you raise were addressed in this thread [image] Julia Modules Internals & Design The current situation with Julia modules is a nightmare with various keywords (include, using, import) and a lack of a simple and standard system for the compiler to f…

Apparently not! I’ve been waiting to see some improvements to the language ever since but modules remain the same.

Implicitly loaded modules in the future?

Internals & Design

jzr June 9, 2021, 9:10pm 4

I think this is the same issue discussed here

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Implicitly loaded modules in the future?

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