What are the essential differences between the following two workflows and what are their respective usage scenarios? Or in another word, what’s the necessity for writing a module instead of a plain .jl file? Write some functions in a file named myFile.jl: function sayHello() println("Hello, …

When you import a module, your code and module are in different scopes. A variable defined inside the module is inside the scope of the module vice versa, otherwise when including a file it works as if you copy and paste the contents of the file in the place where you call include. Also, a module h…

If you include a file then you are placing the function name in the global space and the function has access to any variable in the global space. If you are “using modulename” then the function sayHello is living inside the module name space and has no access to any variables in the global space. T…

What are the essential differences between `include` a file and `using` a module?

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Henrique_Becker June 10, 2023, 11:40am 4

See my answer here: How to structure project in julia - #44 by Henrique_Becker

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What are the essential differences between `include` a file and `using` a module?

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