Is there any possibility that Julia will have local import in the future? I’m aware some people think this is a silly idea; however, this would actually solve a very real problem some users might face. Namely, people want to extend operations like +,-,*,^, etc on Symbol and Expr types, and it would…

[image] chakravala: why can’t the Julia language just provide that macro natively? Like many other features, if a feature can be provided by a package, it should. If it is later proved that the feature is of significant interest (which I kind of doubt this is of that general interest even tho…

Possibility of `local import` statements in future?

Internals & Design

chakravala April 29, 2018, 9:02pm 3

That replaces the + function, doesn’t extend it.

Julep: Taking multiple dispatch,export,import,binary compilation seriously