When I get libraries with the using keyword I get warnings in the console on startup. How can I mitigate the problem of name clashes? I don't see library alias keyword as which is available in other programming languages.
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m33lky
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You can use `import` instead. – Chris Rackauckas Apr 24 '17 at 07:49
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Can I `use` part of the whole package? – m33lky Apr 24 '17 at 07:51
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For reference, which libraries? – Chris Rackauckas Apr 24 '17 at 07:58
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1see [my answer to this question](http://stackoverflow.com/a/39566646/4183191) it covers all the important issues related to your question. – Tasos Papastylianou Apr 24 '17 at 08:31
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You can use import instead. You can always alias it yourself since modules are just variables:
import DifferentialEquations
DiffEq = DifferentialEquations
const DE = DifferentialEquations # Don't know if const matters here
There's an open issue for providing import as syntactic sugar for this. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1255
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You should always do `const`! If not then `DiffEq.foo`, and any calls to it, will never be inferable. – Fengyang Wang Apr 24 '17 at 21:09
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Wasn't sure if modules had an implicit const or something in it. – Chris Rackauckas Apr 24 '17 at 22:00