InlineExports.jl

Decentralizing exports in Julia

Usage

InlineExports provides the convenience macro, @export, for exporting names in a module at the location of definition, as an alternative to the convention of exporting names at the top of the module. @export analyses an expression for definitions of variables, functions or types, and inserts an appropriate export statement above. This is illustrated by the following example:

module M

using InlineExports

@export struct T{...}
    ...
end

function f(x)
    ...
end

"""
    g(x)

...
"""
@export function g(x)
    ...
end

end

The module above will export the names T and g. Alternatively, definitions can be wrapped inside a block. The example below will export both a, b and c:

module M

using InlineExports

@export begin
    a = 1
    const b = 2
    c = 3
end

end

Disabling inline exports

If you wish to disable all inline exports without removing all @export macro calls, InlineExports provides a convenience submodule, InlineExports.NoExport. This submodule exports a definition of the @export macro which returns the expression untouched. As an example, this module does not export the function f(x):

module M

using InlineExports.NoExport

# Export statements have been disabled.  This function will not be exported
@export function f(x)
    ...
end