Elixir Getting Started Guide Section for `use`

[Razvan Musetescu]

I've been trying to figure out the best way to leverage the functionality of module into other modules.

Naturally I thought that one of the directives require or import or the use macro would be the solution

http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/alias-require-and-import.html

After doing some research I found that the use macro solved my problem but I figured out how to use it just after reading this

http://learningelixir.joekain.com/use-import-require-in-elixir/

Specifically there's nothing in the Getting Started Guide about how should we should write the __using__ macro.

I believe this information should be available in the guide as the current documentation isn't enough for a beginner to start using module that he himself wrote.

[Ben Wilson]

The documentation is pretty thorough here: http://elixir-lang.org/docs/master/elixir/Kernel.html#use/2

Honestly, use isn't really beginner material. What do you mean by "start using module that he himself wrote" ?

[Louis Pilfold]

None of require, import, and use are needed to call functions from another module. You just type MyModule.my_function()

I would say that using import is generally a bad idea as it becomes harder to keep track of which functions are defined in which modules.

Cheers,
Louis

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