Questions tagged [modules]
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How do languages where multiple files make up a module handle combining them into one translation/compilation unit?
Mainly, I want to know what existing languages/implementations that use this sort of multi-file module structure do.
In my language, modules can consist of multiple files. (For now I don't plan on ...
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What's the benefit of using different tokens for accessing nested namespaces/modules versus properties?
In JavaScript, accessing items from a module is done using ., e.g. moduleBar.moduleFoo.functionFoo, which looks exactly the same ...
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Typeclasses, traits, interfaces, protocols: is there any consistent terminology?
Many languages have some form of expressing "user-defined duck typing": defining a type by its behavior, rather than anything about the structure or data of an instance of the type itself. ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of package declarations?
Java-family languages often use a package declaration at the top of a source file, to group source files into modules/packages independently of their file system ...
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