"Names" packages?

[Tamas_Papp]

@cscherrer

using both of them forces the name to be qualified. The problem

This is not a problem, it is a feature that protects the user/programmer. The two names denote different things, and should not be automatically conflated. See this epic thread:

Function name conflict: ADL / function merging?

Is there any reason why Julia needs me to fully qualify the function name when the argument types are clear and there shouldn’t be any problem with multiple dispatch? Case 1: load JuliaDB before defining Foo julia> using JuliaDB julia> stack( stack(t::D) where D<:Union{IndexedTables.NDSparse, IndexedTables.NextTable} in IndexedTables at /Users/tomkwong/.julia/v0.6/IndexedTables/src/reshape.jl:32 stack(t::D, by; select, variable, value) where D<:Union{IndexedTables.NDSparse, IndexedTables.Next…