I'm not sure where you get the idea that anyone "admires" using include. I
specifically just recommended not using it.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Jason Merrill <jwmerr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, December 27, 2014 5:15:38 PM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>>
>> You shouldn't be using include here – the way to do this is to make sure
>> that moduleFile.jl is in your LOAD_PATH and then do `using moduleFile` or
>> `import moduleFile`.
>>
>
> I've complained before that "include" in user code is an anti-pattern, and
> I guess I'm going to complain about it again.
>
> Are there examples of other languages that people admire where the
> equivalent of "include" is regularly used in user code?
>
> The main place that I think I've seen people use something like it is PHP,
> and even there, I think "require" is used more frequently in good code.
>
> Languages I've used where include-like functionality is very rarely used
> include Python (include->execfile), Java, and node-style Javascript
> (include->exec(fs.readFileSync("filename"))).
>
> I don't think there's much to learn from Matlab here, and Mathematica's
> culture of user created libraries seems weaker than in many other
> environments.
>
> Do people frequently use source() in R?
>
