It is definitely possible. You just need to use toplevel, which is a magic that Jeff doesn't want people to know about.
-- John On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:52 PM, Ben Arthur <bjarthu...@gmail.com> wrote: > sorry to resurrect this old post, but what is the definitive answer to > whether it's possible to "@eval export ..." sure would be handy. > > On Monday, December 3, 2012 1:04:27 PM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > I'm not sure if this is possible (Jeff will have to answer that), but I would > say that explicitly writing "export a, b, c, d" seems like the way to go. > > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Avik Sengupta <avik.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was wondering how to export functions whose names are defined using an > eval. The following simplified code produces a "syntax error: invalid export > statement" . How can I fix that? Without the @eval export.... , the > functions are properly defined and accessible via the namespace. > > module X; > using Base; > for name in (:a,:b,:c,:d); > @eval global $name > @eval function ($name)() > return true > end > @eval export ($name) > end > end > > -- > > >
