The Julia Modules documentation states: The import keyword […] only operates on a single name at a time. It does not add modules to be searched the way using does. import also differs from using in that functions must be imported using import to be extended with new methods. […] Functions whose names are only … Read more
You can use the @doc macro in Julia versions 0.4 (Oct. 2015) and above. % julia _ _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type “?help” for help. | | | | | | |/ _` | | … Read more
Symbols in Julia are the same as in Lisp, Scheme or Ruby. However, the answers to those related questions are not really satisfactory, in my opinion. If you read those answers, it seems that the reason a symbol is different than a string is that strings are mutable while symbols are immutable, and symbols are … Read more