Based on recent discussions, it seems that at least some people would like
the option to have unqualified use of a function name dispatch across
modules when the argument on which the function is called unambiguously
specifies an exported method. While Julia doesn't do this automatically,
one
Cool. The fact that you can do this implies that the current behavior is in
a sense more fundamental than merging since you can implement merging like
this, whereas if merging were the default, it's unclear how you would
recover the current behavior.
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:08 PM, David Gold
@Stefan: Based on my experiences implementing this feature, I have to
agree. In particular, I imagine that any attempt to include an un-merge
feature would run into a lot of trouble from the fact that function names
are constants. Once you've merged methods into a function 'f', they are
there
I agree with Stefan. The default behavior should be very conservative, and
any niceties (like merging) should be optional features/extensions. Thanks
David... I'll check this out.
On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 3:36:28 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
Cool. The fact that you can do this implies
