importall

[Stefan Karpinski]

We now have the importall keyword that lets you import all the bindings exported by a module. That is

importall Foo

will import all the things exported by Foo.

[John Myles White]

This will make DataFrames a lot cleaner.

 -- John

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[Patrick O'Leary]

This is a good place to remind people that there is a distinction between bringing the all the names exported by a module into the local namespace for "read-only"-like uses (the `using` keyword) and bringing names exported by a module into the local namespace for extending dispatch behaviors (the `import` and `importall` keywords).

[Diego Javier Zea]

importall Base only give us exported functions on export.jl ? I think this behavior it's intentional. But maybe in future Docs need to be documented that you maybe are going to need import some things manually

importall Base
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julia> nt"ACTG"
in @nt_str: interp_parse_bytes not defined
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importall Base
import Base.interp_parse_bytes
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julia> nt"ACTG"
4-element NucleicAcid Array:
 A
 C
 T
 G