On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 3:13:09 PM UTC-4, Toivo Henningsson wrote: > > I don't think it should be allowed. What if two packages try to add > functions with the same name to Base that do completely different things? > And what if they are both applicable to some of the same argument types? >
As long as there is no ambiguity in the types, why should they not be able to? That is *way* too restrictive... > Beyond that, I think being able to add definitions to a module from the > outside comes with an extra set of problems. What if you define a function > that shadows a function that it was using from another module? What if > there was a big where someone was trying to access a function from another > module that wasn't there, but is was named because the function had been > introduced from the outside?
