Split @require out into its own package?

[mbauman]

I discovered the @require macro by way of JuliaLang/julia#2025, and think it's extremely useful. I'd love to use it in some of my own packages. But since you can only override Base.require once, it'd make sense to have everyone share the same codebase. So would you be willing to split it out into a very simple package? Perhaps named Require.jl? Thanks!

[MikeInnes]

Sure, I can take a look at knocking something together and documenting it.

[tomasaschan]

+:100:!

I just discovered this macro too, but through this thread on julia-users, and it would make a lot of the code I write in all kinds of contexts a lot easier to both read and write.

[mbauman]

Hm, actually, if JuliaLang/julia#6884 is really going to be merged soon, perhaps this (or something like it) should live in Compat.jl?

[MikeInnes]

From what I can tell, the API for that will be quite different, which might make merging them together tricky. Although no doubt you could build @require on top of the module system instead of by overloading require.

[MikeInnes]

Requires.jl

Give it a whirl and let me know what you think.