Ah, great. That solves my problem. simon
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 22:24:41 UTC, Kevin Squire wrote: > > For reference, there's an open issue about this: > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3894 > > Regarding your example, you can use (or import) Main.OPTIONS to access the > value inside the module: > > julia> OPTION = "aa" > "aa" > > julia> module Foo > println(Main.OPTION) > end > aa > > Also of note (but not directly related to your problem), in v0.3, an > __init__() function can (as of today(*)) be defined in modules, which can > perform module initialization. > > Cheers, > Kevin > > (*) https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5960 > > > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Simon Byrne <simon...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> On Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:50:38 UTC, Tobias Knopp wrote: >>> >>> Should the user be able to specify the option in code? Winston has an >>> ini file that is parsed on load. Otherwise it should be possible to solve >>> this using global variables. >>> >> >> I guess an ini file would be possible, but it's really just two options >> so that seems like overkill. If I can't figure this out I may resort to >> that option. >> >> Global variables would seem appropriate, but module's don't seem to play >> by the usual scoping rules, e.g. >> >> julia> OPTION = "aa" >> "aa" >> >> julia> module Foo >> global OPTION >> println(OPTION) >> end >> >> ERROR: OPTION not defined >> >> >
