Modules and packages

[cormullion]

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Great work so far! I think you need a chapter on modules and packages, though.

[chrisvoncsefalvay]

Yes! I was planning on squishing it into the topic on macros and metaprogramming, calling it 'macros, modules and metaprogramming' :dancer: just for the alliteration's sake! And also because logically they fit together as they all deal with code extensibility.

[cormullion]

Sounds like a plan. Although I would say that modules and packages are compulsory and meta programming optional?

[chrisvoncsefalvay]

I'd say the chapter will be rather thin on meta other than macros. Macros are becoming bigger and bigger and they're also becoming the basis of documenting functions, so e.g. @doc would be referred to copiously in the style chapter. But good point ;)