import exported enum from another tab

adamohern

I'm importing exported functions from another tab, and so far everything is working fine.

Now I'd like to offload some of my enum definitions to a separate tab as well, but so far that's not working. Is there a trick to making that work?

ilya_baran

The trick (I suspect without seeing your case) is to prefix the import of the tab with the enum definitions with "export" to re-export the imported definitions.  Otherwise the feature studio sees your enums, but the part studio that's supposed to be supplying them to the feature does not.

adamohern

export import(path : "goober", version : "goobergoober");

Like this?? Weird. Okay.

ilya_baran

I know it looks weird, but if you read it as "import all symbols exported from 'goober' and re-export them", I think it makes sense.

adamohern

I guess this springs from my not fully understanding what "export" does. I guess I assumed it was something like the "global" flag in some other languages.

The idea of needing to "re-export" something feels odd to me. If something is exported inside goober, I would expect it to be likewise in any script that imports it.

Again, being used to Python and PHP, I'm accustomed to these things being really straightforward: if you import a file, you import its namespace. Apologies if this kind of thing is standard practice in other languages.

traveler_hauptman

Maybe the hover-help for import and export could explain this.