Is there a way to make a submodule "open"

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It turns out there’s a rather simple solution:
Generate a module containing a noop function for each function you want to have namespaced, then afterwards add methods to these functions (using fully qualified names).
So, as a mockup example:

@genmodule AName

would produce:

module AName
    function fun1() end
    function fun2() end
end

function AName.fun1(x)
    # do something relevant
end

function AName.fun2(y)
    # do something else
end

Where fun1(x) and fun2(y) have full access to the outer namespace but can only be called via AName.

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