On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 10:09:40 AM UTC-5, David van Leeuwen wrote: > > Related to this question: what if you want to use the name of a base > function for your type, where the meaning is _not_ related, but there is no > sensible function that would have that meaning for your type? > > E.g., in GaussianMixtures, I used `map(::GMM, ...)` for > maximum-a-posteriori adaptation of the GMM. I can't see ::GMM in the role > of a ::Function, so I personally do not mind this re-use of an existing > function name from Base. Others may disagree wholeheartedly. > > ---david >
Don't `import Base.map`, and leave `map` off of your exports list. This means users have to use the fully-qualified `GuassianMixtures.map`, but there is no risk of confusion. (Though I am not sure that I would read "map" as a shorthand for "maximum a posteriori"--"maxpost", maybe?) Patrick
