[julia-users] include("otherfile.jl") inside a function - otherfile.jl doesn't seem to know about variables defined before include

[Tomas Lycken]

I have the following two files:

*includetest1.jl*:

module IncludeTest

function testinclude()
    foo = "foo"
    println(foo)
    include("includetest2.jl")
end

end

*includetest2.jl*

println(foo)

If I now try to execute this the function from the REPL, I get errors 
stating that foo is not defined:

julia> include("includetest1.jl")

julia> IncludeTest.testinclude()
foo
ERROR: foo not defined
 in include at boot.jl:244
while loading [...]/includetest2.jl, in expression starting on line 1

I thought include was supposed to just insert the contents of the file in 
whatever context you’re in? If include is not the way to do this, is there 
another?

For completeness:


julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.3.0-prerelease+3884
Commit 3e6a6c7* (2014-06-25 10:41 UTC)
Platform Info:
  System: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY)
  LAPACK: libopenblas
  LIBM: libopenlibm

// T
​