Why not use nested modules? Also- will there be a salt.jl :p?
On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 7:21:54 PM UTC-4, Thomas Hatch wrote: > > I am asking this just to look for some opinions or ideas on the most > Julia-like way to do something, as usual, I have no complaints with Julia :) > > I am working on writing a plugin system in Julia and had a syntax > question. The plugin system was originally written in python and was based > loosely on the Salt plugin system. The plugin system allows for plugin > subsystems to be defined and then they all share a data "hub" so the plugin > systems can easily cross communicate. > > In python the plugin system uses nested python objects to directly > reference the plugin function: > hub.subsystem.module.function(args/kwargs) > > In Julia I have implemented it like this: > plugin(hub, "subsystem.module.function")(args/kwargs) > > Would there be a better, more Julia-like way to represent this concept? > > > Thomas S. Hatch | Founder, CTO > > 3400 N. Ashton Blvd, Suite 110 | Lehi, UT 84043 > tha...@saltstack.com <javascript:> | www.saltstack.com > <http://saltstack.com/> >
