Typeglob and Importing Identifiers from Other Packages

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This chapter provides tutorial examples and notes about typeblog and importing identifiers from other packages. Topics include accessing typeblogs from package's symbolic table; defining alias for identifiers from other packages; using Exporter to export and import identifiers from other packages.

Typeglob, Symbolic Table and Identifier Aliases

Accessing Identifiers from Other Packages as Aliases

Exporting and Importing Package Identifiers

Conclusions:

• %main:: is a special hash used by the compiler to store typeblogs, identifiers (variable and function names), of the "main" package.
• *foo=*otherPackage::bar - Defining local alias for typeblogs in another package.
• use packageName - Including another package with typeblogs imported as local aliases.