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6901 :: Differentiate between system and user modules

• ElAfalw (orginal) [2020-10-08T09:54:01+02:00] view original

  Let's say that I'm desperate to have a user module called strutils for example.

  Am I allowed to do that?

  And if so, how do I differentiate between the two modules when importing them for example?

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• mratsim (orginal) [2020-10-08T10:19:14+02:00] view original

  stdlib modules are namespaced with std/strutils but it's not enforced (yet?)

  For user modules though, I guess you have to look at issues related to nim-random https://github.com/oprypin/nim-random

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• cblake (orginal) [2020-10-08T12:46:53+02:00] view original

  Also worth mentioning is that you can

  import dirA/strutils as myStrut, std/strutils as stdStrut
  Run

  and then use symbols from either in the same client module. (You could naturally not use "as" on one of them and let it default to "strutils"..I did both for symmetry.)

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• solo989 (orginal) [2020-10-11T09:59:00+02:00] view original

  you can do pkg / strutils and it will look in the packages directory and any additional directories you've added with --path:

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