Modules system for the language

[gabyfle]

The next big feature will be the module system for Lice, allowing users to put various functions inside namespaces to retreive later.

Syntax

• Opening a module

open Module;

This will populate the current namespace with all the functions from the given module.

• Creating a module

There will be two ways of creating a module. You can create one directly throught the code, doing with the following syntax:

module Example {
   -- then you can have functions here that will be inside the Example namespace
}

But you can also create modules directly with the filesystem. This means that for example, if you have a file example.lice containing a set of functions, you can import this as a module from an other file by doing open Example.

You can also use folders to arrange your modules inside bigger modules. For example, let say I do have a folder foo containing files bar.lice and car.lice, you can open this folder module using the same syntax:

open Foo

and this will populate the namespace with functions from both modules files bar.lice and car.lice, allowing the user to use syntaxes like: Bar.example() and Car.example().