Why is it odd?
> On Mar 28, 2015, at 10:16 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 4:19:44 PM UTC-5, Mauro wrote: >> Now, generic functions carry >> around with them the module in which they were first defined. To extend >> such a function with another method in another module you either have to >> import it or fully qualify it (DataFrames.nrow). If you don't do that >> then you create a new generic function with the same name as the other >> but not sharing any methods. Also, this function will shadow the other >> one in the current module. > > Aha. This is the piece of information I was looking for. It seems a bit > odd, but it does clear up some things. I'll have to play around with my > implementation and this new information to see if it helps.
