I am fairly new to Julia :wink: My question centers around a sub-module trying to call a method (not a function) where the method is in global space. I have a module named Nodes that wants to call a method transition(...). transition(...) exists within the global namespace yet Julia throws because …

This is a lot of code to try to understand all at once, but I think I can make a guess as to what is going on. I suspect you are doing something like this: julia> module Outer export f f(::Int) = 1 module Inner using ..Outer f(::Float64) = 2 # BAD: …

Interesting. But what if the “outer” isn’t in a custom module but a method within Main? Your example gave me the clue I needed—Nice! And! I also learned from your example how to override a function using an explicit semantics—thanks. In addition, I reduced my code down to an example similar to your…

Sub module accessing a global method

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iPostHuman April 4, 2019, 7:47pm 4

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