import exported enum from another tab

adamohern · April 2016

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 · April 2016

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 · April 2016

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

Like this?? Weird. Okay.

ilya_baran · April 2016

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 · April 2016

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 · April 2016

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

import exported enum from another tab

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